turndown vs rejection

turndown and rejection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
turndown	Yes	No	No	No
rejection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rejection is a hypernym of turndown; that is, rejection is a word with a broader meaning than turndown:

turndown (noun)	rejection (noun)
the act of refusing an offer	the act of rejecting something
	the speech act of rejecting
	(medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign
	the state of being rejected