strife vs crosscurrent

strife and crosscurrent both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
strife	Yes	No	No	No
crosscurrent	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hyponyms of strife include countercurrent, discord, discordance.

strife (noun)	crosscurrent (noun)
bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension	actions counter to the main group activity
lack of agreement or harmony	a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current