noviciate vs time period

noviciate and time period both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
noviciate	Yes	No	No	No
time period	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, time period is a hypernym of noviciate; that is, time period is a word with a broader meaning than noviciate:

noviciate: the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order)
time period: an amount of time

Other hypernyms of noviciate include period, period of time.

noviciate (noun)	time period (noun)
the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order)	an amount of time