gesture vs movement

movement vs gesture

gesture and movement both are nouns.

gesture is a verb but movement is not a verb.

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

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

gesture: motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling
movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location

Other hypernyms of gesture include motility, motion, move.

gesture (noun)	movement (noun)
motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
something done as an indication of intention	the act of changing the location of something
the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals	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

gesture (verb)	movement (verb)
show, express or direct through movement

Difference between gesture and movement

Words related to "movement"

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