commotion vs movement

movement vs commotion

commotion and movement both are nouns.

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

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

commotion: confused movement
movement: a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

Other hypernyms of commotion include motion.

commotion (noun)	movement (noun)
the act of making a noisy disturbance	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
confused movement	the act of changing the location of something
a disorderly outburst or tumult	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 commotion and movement

Words related to "movement"

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