situation vs environment

environment vs situation

situation and environment both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
situation	Yes	No	No	No
environment	Yes	No	No	No

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

situation: the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
environment: the totality of surrounding conditions

Other hyponyms of situation include absurd, the absurd, acceptance, ballgame, new ballgame, challenge, childlessness, complication, crowding, disequilibrium, element, equilibrium, exclusion, fish bowl, fishbowl, goldfish bowl, hotbed, inclusion, intestacy, picture, scene, prison, prison house, rejection, size, size of it, square one, status quo, thing.

situation (noun)	environment (noun)
a job in an organization	the area in which something exists or lives
physical position in relation to the surroundings	the totality of surrounding conditions
the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
a condition or position in which you find yourself
a complex or critical or unusual difficulty

Difference between situation and environment

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