carnage vs bloodshed

carnage and bloodshed both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
carnage	Yes	No	No	No
bloodshed	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hyponyms of carnage include battue, bloodbath, bloodletting.

carnage (noun)	bloodshed (noun)
the savage and excessive killing of many people	indiscriminate slaughter
	the shedding of blood resulting in murder