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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts

Etymologies

  1. From Latin proprius ("one's own"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin proprius, one's own; see per1 in Indo-European roots + (re)ception. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “One of the most important internal senses is called proprioception, or position sense.”

    Brain Blogger - What is Proprioception?

  • “Brain Blogger great blog, by the way offers a nice introduction to the notion of proprioception - a very useful concept for anyone who works with bodies, including their own.”

    Brain Blogger - What is Proprioception?

  • “A case of proprioception occurs when with our eyes shut and without touch we are immediately aware of the angle at which one of our elbows is bent.”

    The Identity Theory of Mind

  • “Using a finely honed psionic talent known as proprioception, the trim, angular-featured Betazoid security guard tapped into the unconscious mind of the semiconscious Koas.”

    Simon & Schuster: Creative Couplings

  • “Using a finely honed psionic talent known as proprioception, the trim, angular-featured Betazoid security guard tapped into the unconscious mind of the semi-conscious Koas.”

    Simon & Schuster: Small World

  • “(JPS), also called proprioception, is the body sense which indicates to our brain where our joints are at all times.”

    Article Source

  • “Math1 is a master hub for the genes that control various parts of neural networks for hearing, balance, the unconscious sense of one's position in space called proprioception and in a new finding, interoception, which is associated with activities such as awakening because of a full bladder or a distended colon, said Dr. Huda Zoghbi, professor of molecular and human genetics, pediatrics, neurology and neuroscience at BCM and Dr. Matthew Rose, an M.D.”

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  • “Math1 is a master hub for the genes that control various parts of neural networks for hearing, balance, the unconscious sense of one's position in space called proprioception and in a new finding, interoception, which is associated with activities such as awakening because of a full bladder or a distended colon, said Dr. Huda Zoghbi”

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  • “I have students who are undergoing chemotherapy, students with herniated vertebral disks, students whose ankles comprise, largely, bits of titanium, students with about as much proprioception knowledge of where their body parts are at any given moment as a chunk of feldspar.”

    The Huffington Post: Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: The One-Legged "Yogini"

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hypernyms (1)

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  1. interoception

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  1. kinanesthesia
  2. kinesthesis
  1. vestibular sense
  2. sense of balance
  1. kinaesthesia
  2. equilibrium
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  2. kinesthesia
  1. sense of equilibrium
  2. kinaesthesis
  1. kinesthetics
  2. sense of movement
  1. labyrinthine sense

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  1. proprioceptive
  2. somaesthesis
  1. somataesthesis
  2. somatic sense
  1. somatic sensory system
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  2. somaesthesia
  1. somatesthesia
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  • johned This is an important and useful word especially if contrasted with kinesthesia and understood in the context of conscious and unconscious proprioception. The discussion on Wikipedia is good (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioceptive} May 3, 2010

  • Prolagus Follow me! Oct 11, 2008

  • dontcry What about sense of humor? Time? Right & wrong? Oct 11, 2008

  • bilby What about non? Most of what I sense is non. Oct 11, 2008

  • Prolagus OK, new list. Join me. Oct 11, 2008

  • Prolagus And snow. Oct 11, 2008

  • Prolagus Or business. Oct 11, 2008

  • Prolagus Not to mention rhythm. Oct 11, 2008

  • Prolagus And parking, pterodactyl. Oct 11, 2008

  • pterodactyl There's a good article about proprioception here. Oct 11, 2008

  • pterodactyl Adoarns -- I can think of at least nine off the top of my head (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, proprioception, balance/gravity, temperature, and pain). Oct 11, 2008

  • thinkingsage Knowing where you are in the world, where your body stops and everything else begins. Oct 11, 2008

  • adoarns Discard all your fanciful notions of there being only five senses. There're at least seven, counting this and balance. Feb 18, 2008

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