Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun onward_motion
1 sense of onward motion
Sense 1
progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion -- (the act of moving forward (as toward a goal))
=> motion, movement, move -- (the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path")