movement vs gesture

gesture vs movement

movement and gesture both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while gesture is a verb.

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

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

movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
gesture: motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling

Other hyponyms of movement include abduction, adduction, agitation, body English, circumduction, disturbance, fetal movement, foetal movement, dart, flit, 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)	gesture (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling
the act of changing the location of something	something done as an indication of intention
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
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)	gesture (verb)
	show, express or direct through movement

Difference between movement and gesture

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