acquisition vs addition

acquisition and addition both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
acquisition	Yes	No	No	No
addition	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hyponyms of acquisition include accession, purchase, gift.

acquisition (noun)	addition (noun)
the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something	the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
an ability that has been acquired by training	the act of adding one thing to another
the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge	a component that is added to something to improve it
something acquired	a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area
	something added to what you already have
	a quantity that is added