catastrophe vs adversity

catastrophe and adversity both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
catastrophe	Yes	No	No	No
adversity	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, adversity is a hypernym of catastrophe; that is, adversity is a word with a broader meaning than catastrophe:

Other hypernyms of catastrophe include hard knocks, hardship.

catastrophe (noun)	adversity (noun)
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune	a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event
a sudden violent change in the earth's surface	a state of misfortune or affliction
a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune