motion picture vs film noir

film noir vs motion picture

motion picture and film noir both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
motion picture	Yes	No	No	No
film noir	Yes	No	No	No

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

motion picture: a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
film noir: a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters

Other hyponyms of motion picture include telefilm, feature, feature film, final cut, home movie, collage film, coming attraction, shoot-'em-up, short subject, docudrama, documentary, documentary film, infotainment, cinema verite, skin flick, rough cut, silent movie, silent picture, silents, slow motion, talkie, talking picture, 3-D, 3D, three-D, musical, musical comedy, musical theater, co-production, family film, family movie.

motion picture (noun)	film noir (noun)
a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement	a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters

Difference between motion picture and film noir

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