discomfort vs malaise

discomfort and malaise both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
discomfort	Yes	No	No	No
malaise	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, malaise is a hyponym of discomfort; that is, malaise is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than discomfort:

Other hyponyms of discomfort include incommodiousness, inconvenience, unease, uneasiness, hangover, katzenjammer, wretchedness.

discomfort (noun)	malaise (noun)
an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress	physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
the state of being tense and feeling pain