movement vs flutter

flutter vs movement

movement and flutter both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while flutter is a verb.

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

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

movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
flutter: the act of moving back and forth

Other hyponyms of movement include abduction, adduction, agitation, 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, waver, standing, span, straddle, stroke, squirm, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy.

movement (noun)	flutter (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	the act of moving back and forth
the act of changing the location of something	the motion made by flapping up and down
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block
the act of changing location from one place to another	a disorderly outburst or tumult
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)	flutter (verb)
	wink briefly
	beat rapidly
	move back and forth very rapidly
	move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
	flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements

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