sweetening vs honey

sweetening and honey both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sweetening	Yes	No	No	No
honey	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

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

Other hyponyms of sweetening include aspartame, saccharin, refined sugar, sugar, sirup, syrup, cyclamate.

sweetening (noun)	honey (noun)
the act of adding a sweetener to food	a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees
an improvement that makes something more agreeable	a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
something added to foods to make them taste sweeter

sweetening (adjective)	honey (adjective)
	of something having the color of honey

sweetening (verb)	honey (verb)
	sweeten with honey