sloughing vs molting

sloughing and molting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sloughing	Yes	No	No	No
molting	Yes	No	No	No

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

sloughing: the process whereby something is shed
molting: periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles

Other hyponyms of sloughing include abscission, ecdysis, molt, moult, moulting.

sloughing (noun)	molting (noun)
the process whereby something is shed	periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles