sacred writing vs mantra

mantra vs sacred writing

sacred writing and mantra both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sacred writing	Yes	No	No	No
mantra	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mantra is a hyponym of sacred writing; that is, mantra is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sacred writing:

sacred writing: writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity
mantra: (Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns

Other hyponyms of sacred writing include sacred scripture, scripture, Bible, Book, Christian Bible, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word, Word of God, Paralipomenon, Testament, evangel, Gospel, Gospels, Synoptic Gospels, Synoptics, prayer, service book, Apocrypha, sapiential book, wisdom book, wisdom literature, Pseudepigrapha, Talmudic literature, Veda, Vedic literature, psalm.

sacred writing (noun)	mantra (noun)
writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity	(Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns
	a commonly repeated word or phrase

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