hotchpotch vs variety

hotchpotch and variety both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hotchpotch	Yes	No	No	No
variety	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, variety is a hypernym of hotchpotch; that is, variety is a word with a broader meaning than hotchpotch:

hotchpotch (noun)	variety (noun)
a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables	noticeable heterogeneity
a motley assortment of things	a difference that is usually pleasant
	a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
	a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances
	(biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics
	a collection containing a variety of sorts of things