fish bowl vs situation

fish bowl and situation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fish bowl	Yes	No	No	No
situation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, situation is a hypernym of fish bowl; that is, situation is a word with a broader meaning than fish bowl:

fish bowl: a state of affairs in which you have no privacy
situation: the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time

Other hypernyms of fish bowl include state of affairs.

fish bowl (noun)	situation (noun)
a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept	a job in an organization
a state of affairs in which you have no privacy	physical position in relation to the surroundings
	the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
	a condition or position in which you find yourself
	a complex or critical or unusual difficulty