variation vs monster

monster vs variation

variation and monster both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
variation	Yes	No	No	No
monster	Yes	No	No	No

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

variation: (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
monster: a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed

Other hyponyms of variation include freak, lusus naturae, monstrosity.

variation (noun)	monster (noun)
an activity that varies from a norm or standard	(medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus
the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard	a cruel wicked and inhuman person
(ballet) a solo dance or dance figure	a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard	an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
something a little different from others of the same type	someone that is abnormally large and powerful
a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
(astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
the process of varying or being varied
the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north

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