state of affairs vs rejection

rejection vs state of affairs

state of affairs and rejection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
state of affairs	Yes	No	No	No
rejection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rejection is a hyponym of state of affairs; that is, rejection is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than state of affairs:

state of affairs: the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
rejection: the state of being rejected

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

state of affairs (noun)	rejection (noun)
the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time	the act of rejecting something
	the speech act of rejecting
	(medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign
	the state of being rejected

Difference between state of affairs and rejection

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