thorn vs botheration

thorn and botheration both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
thorn	Yes	No	No	No
botheration	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, botheration is a hypernym of thorn; that is, botheration is a word with a broader meaning than thorn:

thorn: something that causes irritation and annoyance
botheration: something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness

Other hypernyms of thorn include annoyance, bother, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck.

thorn (noun)	botheration (noun)
something that causes irritation and annoyance	something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
a Germanic character of runic origin	the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf