displacement vs motion

motion vs displacement

displacement and motion both are nouns.

displacement is not a verb while motion is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
displacement	Yes	No	No	No
motion	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, motion is a hypernym of displacement; that is, motion is a word with a broader meaning than displacement:

displacement: the act of uniform movement
motion: the act of changing location from one place to another

Other hypernyms of displacement include move, movement.

displacement (noun)	motion (noun)
act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
act of removing from office or employment	the act of changing location from one place to another
the act of uniform movement	the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
to move something from its natural environment	a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
an event in which something is displaced without rotation	a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one	an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound	a state of change

displacement (verb)	motion (verb)
	show, express or direct through movement

Difference between displacement and motion

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