ascending vs levitation

ascending and levitation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ascending	Yes	Yes	No	No
levitation	Yes	No	No	No

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

ascending: the act of changing location in an upward direction
levitation: the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means

Other hyponyms of ascending include heave, heaving, climb, mount, soar, zoom.

ascending (noun)	levitation (noun)
the act of changing location in an upward direction	the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means
	movement upward in virtue of lightness
	the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means

ascending (adjective)	levitation (adjective)
moving or going or growing upward