defalcation vs amount of money

defalcation and amount of money both are nouns.

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

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

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

defalcation (noun)	amount of money (noun)
the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else	a quantity of money
the sum of money that is misappropriated