movement vs onward motion

onward motion vs movement

movement and onward motion both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of movement include approach, approaching, coming, advance, advancement, forward 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)	onward 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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