bastardy vs status

bastardy and status both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bastardy	Yes	No	No	No
status	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, status is a hypernym of bastardy; that is, status is a word with a broader meaning than bastardy:

bastardy: the status of being born to parents who were not married
status: the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society

Other hypernyms of bastardy include position.

bastardy (noun)	status (noun)
the status of being born to parents who were not married	the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
	a state at a particular time