movement vs agitation

agitation vs movement

movement and agitation both are nouns.

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

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

movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
agitation: the act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously)

Other hyponyms of movement include abduction, adduction, body English, circumduction, disturbance, fetal movement, 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.

movement (noun)	agitation (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	disturbance usually in protest
the act of changing the location of something	the act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously)
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	the feeling of being agitated; not calm
the act of changing location from one place to another	a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)	a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance
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

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