transgression vs crime

crime vs transgression

transgression and crime both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
transgression	Yes	No	No	No
crime	Yes	No	No	No

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

transgression: the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
crime: an evil act not necessarily punishable by law

Other hyponyms of transgression include abomination, evil, immorality, iniquity, wickedness, villainy, depravity, turpitude, vice, sin, sinning, terrorisation, terrorization, offence, offense, inside job.

transgression (noun)	crime (noun)
the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle	(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act
the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit	an evil act not necessarily punishable by law
the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata

Difference between transgression and crime

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