defalcation vs amount

defalcation and amount both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
defalcation	Yes	No	No	No
amount	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, amount is a hypernym of defalcation; that is, amount is a word with a broader meaning than defalcation:

Other hypernyms of defalcation include amount of money, sum, sum of money.

defalcation (noun)	amount (noun)
the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else	how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
the sum of money that is misappropriated	the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion
	a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
	a quantity of money

defalcation (verb)	amount (verb)
	to measure up to in kind or quality
	add up in number or quantity
	be tantamount or equivalent to