Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The sense that detects bodily position, weight, or movement of the muscles, tendons, and joints.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See kinæsthesia.
Wiktionary
- n. Sensation or perception of motion.
- 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
- See kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, and kinaesthetic.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body
- n. the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek κινέω (cineō, put in motion) + αἴσθησις (aesthēsis, sensation) in form -αισθησία after anaesthesia, etc. Compare kinesthesis and Modern Greek κιναισθησία. (Wiktionary)
- 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.”
“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.”
“There's a very much better vocabulary for sight, and a much better one for hearing, than for either kinesthesia or touch.”
“You can also find original templates here kinesthesia November 26, 2007 12:13 PM # | Delete”
“This post has been removed by the author. kinesthesia November 26, 2007 12:09 PM # | Delete”
“My strongest "visualization" is a combination of touch and kinesthesia/other internal feelings.”
“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.”
“Cybernetically-controlled negative feedback kinesthesia; I felt the weapons in my hands and watched my performance with them.”
“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.”
“[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
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kinesthesia’.
-
Bodily
wigwag, caprae, hylozoism, abiogenesis, whorl, entropy, anima, anthropoid, avatar, symbiont, symbiote, android and 34 more...
-
intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
-
hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
-
maygra
apropos, advantageous, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, perihelion, mortmain, solitudinous, mediastinus, asumbrative, traveler and 498 more...
-
stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
-
...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
-
rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
-
unqualified's Words
crisp, insightful, perspicacious, perceptive, clear, readiness, sentience, kinesthesia, sentient, kinesthetic, ambrosia, clairvoyant and 17 more...
-
The Brain
somatosensory cortex, optic chiasm, cerebral hemisphere, dura matter, meninges, neurotransmitters, proprioception, amygdala, axon, blood-brain barrier, hippocampus, fissures and 49 more...
-
word set 4
intercalate, stumpage, lexiphanic, arrhythmia, cyclorama, technetronic, turgescence, flameout, gimballing, transonic, juggernaut, acheron and 87 more...
-
smapte's words
catharsis, mediocrity, epitome, parochial, hydrogeological, collaborative, hush, cupola, epicurean, kiosk, isoflavone, ouroboros and 12 more...
-
nfo's Words
-
Convergence of real and virtual
transumptive, kinesthesia, proprioception, proprioceptor, amorphous, confluence
Tweets
Looking for tweets for kinesthesia.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.