selection vs miscellanea

selection and miscellanea both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
selection	Yes	No	No	No
miscellanea	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, miscellanea is a hypernym of selection; that is, miscellanea is a word with a broader meaning than selection:

Other hypernyms of selection include assortment, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety.

selection (noun)	miscellanea (noun)
the act of choosing or selecting	a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
the person or thing chosen or selected
a passage selected from a larger work
an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment