commiseration vs acknowledgment

commiseration and acknowledgment both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
commiseration	Yes	No	No	No
acknowledgment	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, acknowledgment is a hypernym of commiseration; that is, acknowledgment is a word with a broader meaning than commiseration:

Other hypernyms of commiseration include acknowledgement.

commiseration (noun)	acknowledgment (noun)
an expression of sympathy with another's grief	a statement acknowledging something or someone
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others	a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
	the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged