painting vs pentimento

pentimento vs painting

painting and pentimento both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
painting	Yes	No	No	No
pentimento	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pentimento is a hyponym of painting; that is, pentimento is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than painting:

painting: graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
pentimento: the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)

Other hyponyms of painting include abstraction, cityscape, daub, distemper, finger-painting, icon, ikon, landscape, illumination, miniature, monochrome, mural, wall painting, nude, nude painting, oil painting, sand painting, seascape, waterscape, semi-abstraction, still life, tanka, trompe l'oeil, water-color, water-colour, watercolor, watercolour.

painting (noun)	pentimento (noun)
creating a picture with paints	the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)
the occupation of a house painter
the act of applying paint to a surface
graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface

Difference between painting and pentimento

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