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noun
Sensation or perception of motion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Sensation or perception of motion.
The perception of the movement of one's own body, its limbs and muscles etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
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noun
Sensation or perception of motion.
A spectator's perception of the motion of a performer, or, the effect of the motion of a scene on the spectator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: performing arts
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noun
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. See usage notes below.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: kinesthesis, kinaesthesis, kinaesthesia, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement
Antonyms: kinanesthesia
Broader terms: proprioception
noun
the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: kinaesthesia, feeling of movement
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: somatosense, somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense
History
From kine- + -esthesia. Compare kinesthesis and Greek κιναισθησία (kinaisthisía). Notes If this word were borrowed on fully traditional principles it would be cinesthesia (or cinaesthesia); compare cinema from the same root. But more often this Greek root is spelled and pronounced with a k, and in the case of kinesthesia this avoids inconvenient homophony with synaesthesia, the sensation of one type of perception as another (e.g. the perception of smells as colors). Nevertheless the words are still occasionally confused; e.g. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0849303710&id=_u4sZjHHwCYC&pg=PA581&lpg=PA581&dq=cinesthesia&sig=gFEo5BGoW75XcUVTk44aHGKgGuc.
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