Motion
Motion noun - The act or an instance of changing position.
Performance and motion are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Performance" instead a noun "Motion".
Performance
Performance noun - A presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view.
Motion and performance are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Motion" instead a noun "Performance".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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MechWarrior Living Legends, being a Crysis Wars mod, carries over Crysis's amazing motion blur system, though it's disabled by default for the sake of performance.
Source: Motion Blur - However, Cihi technically still has the rights to his motion-capture performance.
Source: Executive Meddling / Video Games - Suffice it to say, his intense performance that evening sets the plot of the entire rest of the novel in motion.
Source: Can't Have Sex, Ever
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Performance and Motion. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/motion/performance
Motion & Performance. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/motion/performance>.
Performance or Motion. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/motion/performance.
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