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pentimento vs picture

picture vs pentimento

pentimento and picture both are nouns.

pentimento is not a verb while picture is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pentimento Yes No No No
picture Yes No Yes No
As nouns, picture is a hypernym of pentimento; that is, picture is a word with a broader meaning than pentimento:
  • pentimento: the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)
  • picture: graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
Other hypernyms of pentimento include painting.
pentimento (noun) picture (noun)
the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
a clear and telling mental image
a typical example of some state or quality
illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
the visible part of a television transmission
a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
a graphic or vivid verbal description
a situation treated as an observable object
pentimento (verb) picture (verb)
show in, or as in, a picture
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
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