malady vs status

malady and status both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
malady	Yes	No	No	No
status	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, status is a hypernym of malady; that is, status is a word with a broader meaning than malady:

Other hypernyms of malady include condition.

malady (noun)	status (noun)
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism	the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
any unwholesome or desperate condition	a state at a particular time