self-destruction vs destruction

self-destruction and destruction both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
self-destruction	Yes	No	No	No
destruction	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, destruction is a hypernym of self-destruction; that is, destruction is a word with a broader meaning than self-destruction:

self-destruction: the act of destroying yourself
destruction: the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

Other hypernyms of self-destruction include devastation.

self-destruction (noun)	destruction (noun)
the act of killing yourself	the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
the act of destroying yourself	an event that completely destroys something
	a final state