movement vs flit

flit vs movement

movement and flit both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while flit is a verb.

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

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

movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
flit: a sudden quick movement

Other hyponyms of movement include abduction, adduction, agitation, body English, circumduction, disturbance, fetal movement, foetal movement, dart, 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)	flit (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	a sudden quick movement
the act of changing the location of something	a secret move (to avoid paying debts)
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
the act of changing location from one place to another
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
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

movement (verb)	flit (verb)
	move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

Difference between movement and flit

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