reform vs movement

movement vs reform

reform and movement both are nouns.

reform is a verb but movement is not a verb.

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

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

reform: a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices
movement: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

Other hypernyms of reform include campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort.

reform (noun)	movement (noun)
a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices	the act of changing the location of something
self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice	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

reform (verb)	movement (verb)
make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices
break up the molecules of
produce by cracking
change for the better
bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition

Difference between reform and movement

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