table of contents vs listing

table of contents and listing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
table of contents	Yes	No	No	No
listing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, listing is a hypernym of table of contents; that is, listing is a word with a broader meaning than table of contents:

table of contents: a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start
listing: a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)

Other hypernyms of table of contents include list, table, tabular array.

table of contents (noun)	listing (noun)
a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start	the act of making a list of items
	a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)