movement vs sitting

sitting vs movement

movement and sitting both are nouns.

movement is not an adjective while sitting is an adjective.

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

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

movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
sitting: the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position

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, posing, 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)	sitting (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position
the act of changing the location of something	(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	a session as of a legislature or court
the act of changing location from one place to another	a meeting of spiritualists
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)	sitting (adjective)
	(of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks
	not moving and therefore easy to attack

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