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movement has 16 distinct synonyms spread across 8 of its 11 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a change of position that does not entail a change of location
“the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise”
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
“he was a charter member of the movement”
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
“the second movement is slow and melodic”
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
“he supported populist campaigns”
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
“the cinema relies on apparent motion”
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
“not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book”
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
“it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement”
the act of changing the location of something
“the movement of cargo onto the vessel”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for movement come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.