flicker vs movement

movement vs flicker

flicker and movement both are nouns.

flicker is a verb but movement is not a verb.

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

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

flicker: the act of moving back and forth
movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location

Other hypernyms of flicker include motility, motion, move.

flicker (noun)	movement (noun)
the act of moving back and forth	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
North American woodpecker	the act of changing the location of something
a momentary flash of light	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

flicker (verb)	movement (verb)
move back and forth very rapidly
flash intermittently
shine unsteadily

Difference between flicker and movement

Words related to "movement"

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