onward motion

Questions about onward motion

What does onward motion mean?

onward motion means "the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)".

What is another word for onward motion?

Close synonyms include progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is onward motion a common word?

onward motion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.