descent vs movement

movement vs descent

descent and movement both are nouns.

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

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

descent: the act of changing your location in a downward direction
movement: the act of changing location from one place to another

Other hypernyms of descent include motion, move.

descent (noun)	movement (noun)
the act of changing your location in a downward direction	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
properties attributable to your ancestry	the act of changing the location of something
a movement downward	a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
the hereditary derivation of an individual	the act of changing location from one place to another
a downward slope or bend	the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors	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 descent and movement

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