compliance vs honoring

compliance and honoring both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
compliance	Yes	No	No	No
honoring	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hyponyms of compliance include formality, line, honouring, observance, keeping.

compliance (noun)	honoring (noun)
the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another	conformity with law or custom or practice etc.
acting according to certain accepted standards
a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others