Difference between Nocturnal and Period

What is the difference between Nocturnal and Period?

Nocturnal as an adjective is primarily active during the night. while Period as an adjective is appropriate for a given historical era.

Nocturnal

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Primarily active during the night. Taking place at night.

Example sentence: All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Period

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Appropriate for a given historical era.

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Punctuation mark “” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).A length of time.An epoch, era, time in history or in a person's life.A specific length of time that an activity (such as a game or a school day) is conventionally divided into.The minimum interval during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.Female menstruation.A row in the periodic table of the elements.A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm

We hope you now know whether to use Nocturnal or Period in your sentence.

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