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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The sense that detects bodily position, weight, or movement of the muscles, tendons, and joints.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See kinæsthesia.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Sensation or perception of motion.
  2. n. proprioception or static position sense; the perception of the position and posture of the body; also, more broadly, including the motion of the body as well.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. See kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, and kinaesthetic.

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

Etymologies

  1. Ancient Greek κινέω (cineō, put in motion) + αἴσθησις (aesthēsis, sensation) in form -αισθησία after anaesthesia, etc. Compare kinesthesis and Modern Greek κιναισθησία. (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek kīnein, to move; see kei-2 in Indo-European roots + esthesia. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “I get how sensory-motor amnesia affect kinesthesia and movement, but fatigue seems like another level.”

    Dar Kush

  • “My primary sense is kinesthesia; I can remember what it felt like to move around in places where I used to live much better than what they looked like.”

    Back on line

  • “There's a very much better vocabulary for sight, and a much better one for hearing, than for either kinesthesia or touch.”

    Back on line

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  • “My strongest "visualization" is a combination of touch and kinesthesia/other internal feelings.”

    Another Day in the Ketchup Mine

  • “Because when I wasn't in kinesthesia, the machine kept my body totally inert and zapped my brain with four millennia's worth of military facts and theories.”

    The Forever War

  • “Cybernetically-controlled negative feedback kinesthesia; I felt the weapons in my hands and watched my performance with them.”

    The Forever War

  • “For those moments he was without any senses but sight, hearing, a dim touch and kinesthesia, a jab of pain through what remained of his tissues.”

    Ensign Flandry

  • “[28] 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 The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform

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