flutter vs movement

movement vs flutter

flutter and movement both are nouns.

flutter is a verb but movement is not a verb.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of flutter include motility, motion, move.

flutter (noun)	movement (noun)
the act of moving back and forth	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
the motion made by flapping up and down	the act of changing the location of something
abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block	a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
a disorderly outburst or tumult	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

flutter (verb)	movement (verb)
wink briefly
beat rapidly
move back and forth very rapidly
move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements

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