waver vs movement

movement vs waver

waver and movement both are nouns.

waver is a verb but movement is not a verb.

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

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

waver: the act of moving back and forth
movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location

Other hypernyms of waver include motility, motion, move.

waver (noun)	movement (noun)
the act of moving back and forth	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
the act of pausing uncertainly	the act of changing the location of something
someone who communicates by waving	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

waver (verb)	movement (verb)
give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
sway from side to side
move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
move back and forth very rapidly
move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
be unsure or weak

Difference between waver and movement

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