destruction vs malicious mischief

malicious mischief vs destruction

destruction and malicious mischief both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
destruction	Yes	No	No	No
malicious mischief	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, malicious mischief is a hyponym of destruction; that is, malicious mischief is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than destruction:

destruction: the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
malicious mischief: willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others

Other hyponyms of destruction include disaster, kill, laying waste, ruin, ruination, ruining, wrecking, demolishing, leveling, razing, tearing down, annihilation, obliteration, decimation, self-destruction, neutralisation, neutralization, sabotage, extermination, liquidation, holocaust, demolition, spoliation, hooliganism, vandalism.

destruction (noun)	malicious mischief (noun)
the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists	willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others
an event that completely destroys something
a final state

Difference between destruction and malicious mischief

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