obedience vs compliance

obedience and compliance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
obedience	Yes	No	No	No
compliance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, compliance is a hypernym of obedience; that is, compliance is a word with a broader meaning than obedience:

obedience: the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
compliance: the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another

Other hypernyms of obedience include submission.

obedience (noun)	compliance (noun)
the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person	the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
behavior intended to please your parents	acting according to certain accepted standards
the trait of being willing to obey	a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others