recoil vs movement

recoil and movement both are nouns.

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

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

recoil: a movement back from an impact
movement: a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

Other hypernyms of recoil include motion.

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

recoil: the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
movement: a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

Other hypernyms of recoil include motion.

recoil (noun)	movement (noun)
a movement back from an impact	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired	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

recoil (verb)	movement (verb)
spring back, as from a forceful thrust
draw back, as with fear or pain
spring back; spring away from an impact
come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect