devastation vs malicious mischief

malicious mischief vs devastation

devastation and malicious mischief both are nouns.

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

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

devastation: 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 devastation 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.

devastation (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
plundering with excessive damage and destruction
an event that results in total destruction
the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
the state of being decayed or destroyed

Difference between devastation and malicious mischief

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