kinesthesia

kin•es•the•sia (kin-uhs-THEE-zhuh)  n
also kinaesthesia

Definition:
the sense that detects bodily position, weight, or movement of the muscles, tendons, and joints; muscle sense

kinesthesis noun; kinesthetic adjective; kinesthetically adverb

1880; Mod.L. compound of Gk. kinein "to move" + aisthesis "perception" from PIE base *au- "to perceive"

Related:
Related Words: anaesthesia, paraesthesia

Sentence Examples:
• The relation of our kinesthesia or muscular sense to fanaticism on the one hand and freedom of mind on the other is a matter now beginning to be studied with the promise of highly important results. -The Mind in the Making, by James Harvey Robinson

• I venture to suggest the probability that the physical or energy-aspect of feeling is numerous sets of kinesthetic neurokinetic strains or impulses relating all layers of the great cortex to its effective environment (whether the latter be outside the body or within it), the conscious inhibitory phase of the kinesthesia representing originally the feelings unpleasant in tone, and its subconscious actuating phase the pleasant emotion. -Medical record, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman

• I ask what really matters about dance-floor practice and pursue an analysis of the kinesthesia of queer identifications and the choreography of queer desirings. -Dancing desires: choreographing sexualities on and off the stage, Jane Desmond

Sources: Free Dictionary, Online Etymology

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motile

mo•tile (MOHT-l, MOH-til)

Definition:
adjective
moving or capable of moving spontaneously
noun
a person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action

motility noun

Origin:
1864, from Latin mot-, pp. stem of movere "move, set in motion"

Related:
Related Words: motion, mobile, remove, motor, promote, emotion, motive, commotion

Sentence Examples:
• This group of the protophytes is unquestionably closely related to certain low animals (Monads or Flagellata), with which they are sometimes united. They are characterized by being actively motile, and are either strictly unicellular, or the cells are united by a gelatinous envelope into a colony of definite form. -Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany, Douglas Houghton Campbell

• To accomplish this latter end of its journey the spermatozoon is endowed with some form of motile apparatus, and this frequently takes the form of a long flagellum, or whip-like process, by the lashing of which the little creature propels itself much as a tadpole with its tail. -Mendelism, Third Edition

• The more motile organisms are constantly, by very reason of their motility, encountering situations which put a strain upon the attention. -Sex and Society, William I. Thomas

The Storyline
And this was one of those days that she questioned if all of her employees were truly motile.

Sources:Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, Online Etymology

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