recital vs history

history vs recital

recital and history both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
recital	Yes	No	No	No
history	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, history is a hypernym of recital; that is, history is a word with a broader meaning than recital:

recital: a detailed account or description of something
history: a record or narrative description of past events

Other hypernyms of recital include account, chronicle, story, statement.

recital (noun)	history (noun)
the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events	the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance	all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
performance of music or dance especially by soloists	a record or narrative description of past events
a detailed account or description of something	the aggregate of past events
	the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future

Difference between recital and history

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