movement vs forward motion

forward motion vs movement

movement and forward motion both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
movement	Yes	No	No	No
forward motion	Yes	No	No	No

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

movement: the act of changing location from one place to another
forward motion: the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

Other hyponyms of movement include approach, approaching, coming, advance, advancement, onward motion, procession, progress, progression, locomotion, travel, lunge, lurch, travel, traveling, travelling, chase, following, 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)	forward motion (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
the act of changing the location of something
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

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