neoteny vs evolutionary trend

neoteny and evolutionary trend both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
neoteny	Yes	No	No	No
evolutionary trend	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, evolutionary trend is a hypernym of neoteny; that is, evolutionary trend is a word with a broader meaning than neoteny:

neoteny: an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species
evolutionary trend: a general direction of evolutionary change

neoteny (noun)	evolutionary trend (noun)
an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species	a general direction of evolutionary change