vis major vs tragedy

vis major and tragedy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vis major	Yes	No	No	No
tragedy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tragedy is a hypernym of vis major; that is, tragedy is a word with a broader meaning than vis major:

vis major: a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
tragedy: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

Other hypernyms of vis major include calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster.

vis major (noun)	tragedy (noun)
a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events	drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
	an event resulting in great loss and misfortune