compliance vs obedience

compliance and obedience both are nouns.

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

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

compliance: the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
obedience: the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person

Other hyponyms of compliance include obeisance, prostration.

compliance (noun)	obedience (noun)
the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another	the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
acting according to certain accepted standards	behavior intended to please your parents
a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others	the trait of being willing to obey