cease vs ending

cease and ending both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cease	Yes	No	Yes	No
ending	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ending is a hypernym of cease; that is, ending is a word with a broader meaning than cease:

Other hypernyms of cease include end.

cease (noun)	ending (noun)
(`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end	the act of ending something
	the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
	the last section of a communication
	event whose occurrence ends something
	the point in time at which something ends

cease (verb)	ending (verb)
put an end to a state or an activity
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical