sensing vs listening

sensing and listening both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sensing	Yes	No	No	No
listening	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hyponyms of sensing include look, looking, looking at, hearing, lipreading, taste, tasting, smell, smelling.

sensing (noun)	listening (noun)
becoming aware of something via the senses	the act of hearing attentively
the perception that something has occurred or some state exists