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movement vs descent

descent vs movement

movement and descent both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
movement Yes No No No
descent Yes No No No
As nouns, descent is a hyponym of movement; that is, descent is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than movement:
  • movement: the act of changing location from one place to another
  • descent: the act of changing your location in a downward direction
movement (noun) descent (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location the act of changing your location in a downward direction
the act of changing the location of something properties attributable to your ancestry
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end a movement downward
the act of changing location from one place to another the hereditary derivation of an individual
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) a downward slope or bend
a general tendency to change (as of opinion) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
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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