association vs society

association and society both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
association	Yes	No	No	No
society	Yes	No	No	No

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

association (noun)	society (noun)
the act of consorting with or joining with others	an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination	a formal association of people with similar interests
a formal organization of people or groups of people	the fashionable elite
(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species	the state of being with someone
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
a relation resulting from interaction or dependence
a social or business relationship
the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination