mot vs witticism

mot and witticism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mot	Yes	No	No	No
witticism	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, witticism is a hypernym of mot; that is, witticism is a word with a broader meaning than mot:

mot: a clever remark
witticism: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

Other hypernyms of mot include humor, humour, wit, wittiness.

mot (noun)	witticism (noun)
a clever remark	a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter