punctuation vs full stop

full stop vs punctuation

punctuation and full stop both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
punctuation	Yes	No	No	No
full stop	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, full stop is a hyponym of punctuation; that is, full stop is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than punctuation:

punctuation: the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
full stop: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

Other hyponyms of punctuation include ampersand, apostrophe, brace, bracket, square bracket, angle bracket, bracket, colon, comma, exclamation mark, exclamation point, dash, hyphen, parenthesis, full point, period, point, stop, interrogation point, question mark, inverted comma, quotation mark, quote, semicolon, diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule, swung dash.

punctuation (noun)	full stop (noun)
the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions

Difference between punctuation and full stop

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