brute vs being

brute and being both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brute	Yes	Yes	No	No
being	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, being is a hypernym of brute; that is, being is a word with a broader meaning than brute:

brute: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
being: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

Other hypernyms of brute include organism.

brute (noun)	being (noun)
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement	a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
a cruelly rapacious person	the state or fact of existing

brute (adjective)	being (adjective)
resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility