movement vs following

following vs movement

movement and following both are nouns.

movement is not an adjective while following is an adjective.

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

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

movement: the act of changing location from one place to another
following: the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture

Other hyponyms of movement include approach, approaching, coming, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression, locomotion, travel, lunge, lurch, travel, traveling, travelling, chase, pursual, pursuit, ascending, ascension, ascent, rise, descent, swing, swinging, vacillation, return, coast, glide, slide, slippage, flow, stream, crawl, hurrying, speed, speeding, displacement, translation, shift, shifting, haste, hurry, rush, rushing, maneuver, manoeuvre, play, migration.

movement (noun)	following (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
the act of changing the location of something	a group of followers or enthusiasts
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 (adjective)	following (adjective)
	going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction
	in the desired direction
	about to be mentioned or specified
	immediately following in time or order

Difference between movement and following

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