procession vs movement

movement vs procession

procession and movement both are nouns.

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

As nouns, movement is a hypernym of procession; that is, movement is a word with a broader meaning than procession:

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

Other hypernyms of procession include motion, move.

procession (noun)	movement (noun)
the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation	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
(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost	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

Difference between procession and movement

Words related to "movement"

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