destruction vs ending

destruction and ending both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
destruction	Yes	No	No	No
ending	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ending is a hypernym of destruction; that is, ending is a word with a broader meaning than destruction:

destruction: the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
ending: the act of ending something

Other hypernyms of destruction include conclusion, termination.

As nouns, ending is a hypernym of destruction; that is, ending is a word with a broader meaning than destruction:

Other hypernyms of destruction include conclusion, finish.

destruction (noun)	ending (noun)
the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists	the act of ending something
an event that completely destroys something	the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
a final state	the last section of a communication
	event whose occurrence ends something
	the point in time at which something ends