motility vs fetal movement

fetal movement vs motility

motility and fetal movement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
motility	Yes	No	No	No
fetal movement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fetal movement is a hyponym of motility; that is, fetal movement is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than motility:

motility: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
fetal movement: motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the 16th week of pregnancy)

Other hyponyms of motility include abduction, adduction, agitation, body English, circumduction, disturbance, foetal movement, dart, flit, gesture, headshake, headshaking, inclination, inclining, eversion, everting, inversion, inversion, upending, jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade, kick, kicking, kneel, kneeling, lurch, pitch, pitching, eye movement, opening, prostration, reach, reaching, stretch, reciprocation, reclining, retraction, retroflection, retroflexion, rotary motion, rotation, closing, shutting, sitting, posing, sitting, snap, squat, squatting, sweep, toss, quiver, quivering, vibration, wave, flicker, flutter, waver, standing, span, straddle, stroke, squirm, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy.

motility (noun)	fetal movement (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the 16th week of pregnancy)
ability to move spontaneously and independently

Difference between motility and fetal movement

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