gleet vs purulence

gleet and purulence both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gleet	Yes	No	No	No
purulence	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, purulence is a hypernym of gleet; that is, purulence is a word with a broader meaning than gleet:

gleet: a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea
purulence: a fluid product of inflammation

Other hypernyms of gleet include festering, ichor, pus, sanies, suppuration.

gleet (noun)	purulence (noun)
a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea	a fluid product of inflammation
	symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus)