defunctness vs death

defunctness and death both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
defunctness	Yes	No	No	No
death	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, death is a hypernym of defunctness; that is, death is a word with a broader meaning than defunctness:

defunctness (noun)	death (noun)
no longer in existence	the act of killing
	the event of dying or departure from life
	the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
	the absence of life or state of being dead
	a final state
	the time when something ends
	the time at which life ends; continuing until dead