tendency vs movement

movement vs tendency

tendency and movement both are nouns.

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

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

tendency: an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
movement: a general tendency to change (as of opinion)

Other hyponyms of tendency include direction, drift, trend, Call, denominationalism, devices, sympathy, understanding, favoritism, favouritism, leaning, proclivity, propensity, bent, set, literalism, perseveration, predisposition, favor, favour, disapproval, disfavor, disfavour, dislike, partiality, partisanship, impartiality, nonpartisanship, dogmatism.

tendency (noun)	movement (noun)
a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others	the act of changing the location of something
an inclination to do something	a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
a general direction in which something tends to move	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 tendency and movement

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