position vs situation

position and situation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
position	Yes	No	Yes	No
situation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, position and situation are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of position include berth, office, place, post.

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

As nouns, position and situation are synonyms defined as:

position and situation: a condition or position in which you find yourself

position (noun)	situation (noun)
the act of putting something in a certain place	a job in an organization
a job in an organization	physical position in relation to the surroundings
(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player	the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another	a condition or position in which you find yourself
the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom	a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
the arrangement of the body and its limbs
a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
a rationalized mental attitude
an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
an item on a list or in a sequence
the particular portion of space occupied by something
a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
the appropriate or customary location
the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
a condition or position in which you find yourself

position (verb)	situation (verb)
put into a certain place or abstract location
cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation