noncandidate vs pol

noncandidate and pol both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
noncandidate	Yes	No	No	No
pol	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pol is a hypernym of noncandidate; that is, pol is a word with a broader meaning than noncandidate:

noncandidate: someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office
pol: a person active in party politics

Other hypernyms of noncandidate include political leader, politician, politico.

noncandidate (noun)	pol (noun)
someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office	a person active in party politics