sunspot vs maculation

sunspot and maculation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sunspot	Yes	No	No	No
maculation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, maculation is a hypernym of sunspot; that is, maculation is a word with a broader meaning than sunspot:

sunspot: a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field
maculation: a small contrasting part of something

Other hypernyms of sunspot include dapple, fleck, patch, speckle, spot.

sunspot (noun)	maculation (noun)
a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field	the act of spotting or staining something
	a small contrasting part of something