locus vs situation

locus and situation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
locus	Yes	No	No	No
situation	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hypernyms of locus include site.

locus (noun)	situation (noun)
the set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions	a job in an organization
the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)	physical position in relation to the surroundings
the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome	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