ascension vs movement

movement vs ascension

ascension and movement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ascension	Yes	No	No	No
movement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, movement is a hypernym of ascension; that is, movement is a word with a broader meaning than ascension:

ascension: the act of changing location in an upward direction
movement: the act of changing location from one place to another

Other hypernyms of ascension include motion, move.

ascension (noun)	movement (noun)
the act of changing location in an upward direction	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
a movement upward; rise above the ground	the act of changing the location of something
(astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon	a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
	the act of changing location from one place to another
	the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
	a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
	a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
	a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
	a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
	an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
	a euphemism for defecation

Difference between ascension and movement

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