kinesthesia
Pronunciation: /ˌkɪnɪsˈθiʒə/
The English word “kinesthesia” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- Sensation or perception of motion.
- The perception of the movement of one's own body, its limbs and muscles etc.
- A spectator's perception of the motion of a performer, or, the effect of the motion of a scene on the spectator.
- 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.
Etymology
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…
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