scene-stealer vs player

scene-stealer and player both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scene-stealer	Yes	No	No	No
player	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, player is a hypernym of scene-stealer; that is, player is a word with a broader meaning than scene-stealer:

scene-stealer: an actor who draws more attention than other actors in the same scene
player: a theatrical performer

Other hypernyms of scene-stealer include actor, histrion, role player, thespian.

scene-stealer (noun)	player (noun)
an actor who draws more attention than other actors in the same scene	a theatrical performer
	a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
	someone who plays a music as a profession
	a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
	someone who takes part in an activity