picture vs pentimento

pentimento vs picture

picture and pentimento both are nouns.

picture is a verb but pentimento is not a verb.

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

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

picture: 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 picture 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.

picture (noun)	pentimento (noun)
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface	the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)
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

picture (verb)	pentimento (verb)
show in, or as in, a picture
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

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