What is the difference between moment and movement

As individuals and organizations, we will each have our moments of opportunity. The question is, when your moment is over, do you have the conviction to create a movement? Search for. Moment or Movement March 29, But when that moment is over, there is a decision to make.

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Togather vs. Maintenance vs. Brachycardia vs. Villainize vs. Catagory vs. To me a movement seems more singular and atomic—it sounds slightly better to focus on a movement out of movements than a motion out of motion.

Movement could be associated with feeling which occurs or somehow needs immediate attention, whereas motion could be associated with a thought that may be toyed with. One can put a thought on the table and thus can be disconnected from it in the psychological sense, whereas it is perhaps rather hard to do so for a feeling. And by stating the obvious I ment to say that if we stick to the definitions and the usage examples in the dictionary we should be fine.

Movement is booming, motion is on a steady decline, at least in all the books the Google has read. I think that technically, movement is static while motion is mobile. The distinction is more important in academic science context but it is ambiguous if we apply it to everything else literature, usage on daily basis etc.

I think movement depends on incase of ball hit by a bat reaches some distance with the help of some external force applied on it motion reaches some distance with out the help of any external agencies. Correlation is not causation, and quantification is not evidence-based problem solving, my friend! While your search spit back loads of numbers, they say nothing for the meanings of these words. Have you spoken to any linguists? This is an excellent question for a linguist!

If you deconstruct the words and take a look at form meaning relationships, what we see is different distributions; these words are not interchangeable.

The problem with these two words is that people often mistake one for the other. Timmy almost has it with the clock analogy. Their movement is a result of motion. The motion is the process underlying the observable physical shift. Are you thinking of a highly intelligent but slightly socially awkward science-minded person? Simply put, motion is a process or the action, whereas movement is a physical embodiment of that process.

Dear Elle, your reply is most timely and useful. And thank you Arj for your research. I am translating some rather cosmic text into english. As in norwegian there is only one word to express movement.