replacement vs displacement

replacement and displacement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
replacement	Yes	No	No	No
displacement	Yes	No	No	No

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

replacement: the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
displacement: act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

Other hyponyms of replacement include novation, pitching change, supersedure, supersession, supplanting.

replacement (noun)	displacement (noun)
the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another	act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another	act of removing from office or employment
an event in which one thing is substituted for another	the act of uniform movement
a person who follows next in order	to move something from its natural environment
someone who takes the place of another person	an event in which something is displaced without rotation
filling again by supplying what has been used up	(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
	(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

replacement vs displacement

replacement and displacement both are nouns.

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