fade vs ending

fade and ending both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of fade include conclusion, termination.

fade (noun)	ending (noun)
gradually ceasing to be visible	the act of ending something
a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer	the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
	the last section of a communication
	event whose occurrence ends something
	the point in time at which something ends

fade (verb)	ending (verb)
become feeble
disappear gradually
lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly