abidance vs continuation

abidance and continuation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
abidance	Yes	No	No	No
continuation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, continuation is a hypernym of abidance; that is, continuation is a word with a broader meaning than abidance:

Other hypernyms of abidance include continuance.

abidance (noun)	continuation (noun)
the act of abiding (enduring without yielding)	the act of continuing an activity without interruption
the act of dwelling in a place	the consequence of being lengthened in duration
acting according to certain accepted standards	a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction
	a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it