recess vs cease

cease vs recess

recess and cease both are nouns.

recess and cease both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
recess	Yes	No	Yes	No
cease	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, cease is a hypernym of recess; that is, cease is a word with a broader meaning than recess:

recess: close at the end of a session
cease: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

Other hypernyms of recess include end, finish, stop, terminate.

recess (noun)	cease (noun)
a pause from doing something (as work)	(`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end
an enclosure that is set back or indented
an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
a small concavity
a state of abeyance or suspended business

recess (verb)	cease (verb)
close at the end of a session	put an end to a state or an activity
make a recess in	have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
put into a recess

Difference between recess and cease

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