malevolence vs evil

malevolence and evil both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
malevolence	Yes	No	No	No
evil	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, evil is a hypernym of malevolence; that is, evil is a word with a broader meaning than malevolence:

Other hypernyms of malevolence include evilness.

malevolence (noun)	evil (noun)
the quality of threatening evil	morally objectionable behavior
wishing evil to others	the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice

malevolence (adjective)	evil (adjective)
	morally bad or wrong
	having or exerting a malignant influence
	having the nature of vice