variety vs description

description vs variety

variety and description both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
variety	Yes	No	No	No
description	Yes	No	No	No

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

variety: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
description: sort or variety

Other hyponyms of variety include type, antitype, art form, style, flavor, flavour, color, colour, species, genus, brand, make, genre, ilk, like, manner, model, stripe, like, the like, the likes of.

variety (noun)	description (noun)
noticeable heterogeneity	sort or variety
a difference that is usually pleasant	the act of describing something
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality	a statement that represents something in words
a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances
(biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

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