sheepishness vs embarrassment

sheepishness and embarrassment both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sheepishness	Yes	No	No	No
embarrassment	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, embarrassment is a hypernym of sheepishness; that is, embarrassment is a word with a broader meaning than sheepishness:

sheepishness: feeling embarrassed about yourself
embarrassment: the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public

sheepishness (noun)	embarrassment (noun)
feeling embarrassed about yourself	extreme excess
	some event that causes someone to be embarrassed
	the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
	the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)