prevention vs hinderance

prevention and hinderance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
prevention	Yes	No	No	No
hinderance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hinderance is a hypernym of prevention; that is, hinderance is a word with a broader meaning than prevention:

Other hypernyms of prevention include hindrance, interference.

prevention (noun)	hinderance (noun)
the act of preventing	the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
	any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
	something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress