passage vs excerption

passage and excerption both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
passage	Yes	No	No	No
excerption	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, excerption is a hyponym of passage; that is, excerption is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than passage:

passage (noun)	excerption (noun)
a journey usually by ship	The act of excerpting or selecting from a larger work.
the passing of a law by a legislative body	a passage selected from a larger work
the act of passing something to another person
the act of passing from one state or place to the next
a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
a way through or along which someone or something may pass
a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
a short section of a musical composition
the motion of one object relative to another