Kinesthesia Definition

kĭnĭs-thēzhə, kīnĭs-
noun
The sensation of position, movement, tension, etc. of parts of the body, perceived through nerve-end organs in muscles, tendons, and joints.
Webster's New World
Sensation or perception of motion.
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  • kinanesthesia

Other Word Forms of Kinesthesia

Noun

Singular:
kinesthesia
Plural:
kinesthesias

Origin of Kinesthesia

  • 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. .

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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.

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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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