betterment vs transmutation

betterment and transmutation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
betterment	Yes	No	No	No
transmutation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, transmutation is a hypernym of betterment; that is, transmutation is a word with a broader meaning than betterment:

Other hypernyms of betterment include shift, transformation.

betterment (noun)	transmutation (noun)
the act of relieving ills and changing for the better	an act that changes the form or character or substance of something
a change for the better; progress in development	a qualitative change
an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility	(physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment)