amount vs defalcation

amount and defalcation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
amount	Yes	No	Yes	No
defalcation	Yes	No	No	No

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

amount (noun)	defalcation (noun)
how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify	the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion	the sum of money that is misappropriated
a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
a quantity of money

amount (verb)	defalcation (verb)
to measure up to in kind or quality
add up in number or quantity
be tantamount or equivalent to