significance vs consequence

significance and consequence both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
significance	Yes	No	No	No
consequence	Yes	No	No	No

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

significance: the quality of being significant
consequence: having important effects or influence

Other hyponyms of significance include historicalness, meaningfulness, import, moment.

significance (noun)	consequence (noun)
the quality of being significant	having important effects or influence
a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred	the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual
the message that is intended or expressed or signified	a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

significance vs consequence

significance and consequence both are nouns.

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