Word Type

Noun

The word "movement" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

stasis

Causes Desire

maintain muscle strength

Defined As

act or process of moving

Derived Terms

A-movement Brownian movement Howell movement Jesus movement Mitchell movement Oxford movement Protestant Movement aftermovement aircraft movement antimovement art movement beta movement bowel movement camera movement choreiform movement civil rights movement comovement countermovement criminal religious movement cultural movement ecomovement ecumenical movement eye movement desensitization and reprocessing free school movement freedom of movement head movement holiness movement holomovement human movement human potential movement involuntary movement literary movement march-movement micromovement midmovement movement control order movement disorder multimovement new religious movement nonmovement of its proper movement perimovement photomovement pincer movement postmovement premovement rapid eye movement social movement streaming movement submovement temperance movement voluntary movement wh-movement youth movement

Derived From

move

Context

aviation baseball engineering music

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

action action mechanism change composition defecation disposition happening inclination laxation musical composition natural event occurrence occurrent optical illusion opus piece piece of music shitting social group tendency venture

Type Of (IsA)

action animation in it's purest form change happening movement or shape change musical composition physical event social group transfer

Part Of

clock sonata watch

Related Terms

The Movement speed symphony vector velocity

Related Terms

aircraft ballistic composition deviation emotion impression mechanism motion move physical pitch speed symphony system trend vector velocity watch wheelwork

Synonym Network

apparent motion bowel movement campaign drift motion

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.