motion vs displacement

displacement vs motion

motion and displacement both are nouns.

motion is a verb but displacement is not a verb.

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

As nouns, displacement is a hyponym of motion; that is, displacement is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than motion:

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

Other hyponyms of motion include approach, approaching, coming, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression, locomotion, travel, lunge, lurch, travel, traveling, travelling, chase, following, pursual, pursuit, ascending, ascension, ascent, rise, descent, swing, swinging, vacillation, return, coast, glide, slide, slippage, flow, stream, crawl, hurrying, speed, speeding, translation, shift, shifting, haste, hurry, rush, rushing, maneuver, manoeuvre, play, migration.

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

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

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