Kinesthesia Definition
- feeling of movement
- kinaesthesia
- muscle sense
- kinesthetics
- kinaesthesis
- sense of movement
- kinesthesis
- kinanesthesia
Other Word Forms of Kinesthesia
Noun
Origin of Kinesthesia
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If this word were borrowed on fully traditional principles it would be cinesthesia (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. .
From Wiktionary
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Ancient Greek κινέω (cineō, put in motion) + αἴσθησις (aesthēsis, sensation) in form -αισθησία after anaesthesia, etc. Compare kinesthesis and Modern Greek κιναισθησία.
From Wiktionary
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Greek kīnein to move keiə- in Indo-European roots esthesia
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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