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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The muscular sense: the sense of muscular effort. Also kinesthesia, kinæsthesis, kinesthesis.

Wiktionary

  1. n. alternative spelling of kinesthesia.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Physiol.) The perception attendant upon the movements of the muscles; the sensation accompanying movement of the muscles.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body
  2. n. the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc

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  • “Both of them were aware of this through the set of sensations we refer to as kinaesthesia.”

    A Story From Sodom

  • “I actively disbelieve in an “ever after” or, as I like to call it, Pie In The Sky When You Die, because you can’t have the kinaesthesia we call affect or the recombination of sensation we call thought, memory, consciousness, without a fricking body.”

    Bukiet on Brooklyn Books

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Other words for ‘kinaesthesia’

  1. kinaesthesis

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  1. proprioception
  2. somaesthesia
  1. somesthesis
  2. somaesthesis
  1. somatosensory system
  2. somataesthesis
  1. somatosense
  2. somatesthesia
  1. somatic sense
  2. somesthesia
  1. somatic sensory system

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  1. kinesthesia
  1. kinaesthetic

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  • yarb ...this tumult, this tempest, this kind of celestial disorder of the kinaesthesia.

    - Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola Jul 30, 2008

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