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kinæsthesia

kinæsthesia is the obsolete form of kinesthesia.

Meaning of kinesthesia

Noun

kinesthesia (countable and uncountable, plural kinesthesias)

  1. Sensation or perception of motion.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:kinesthesia.
    1. The perception of the movement of one's own body, its limbs and muscles etc.
    2. (performing arts) A spectator's perception of the motion of a performer, or, the effect of the motion of a scene on the spectator.
  2. 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.

Origin of kinæsthesia

From kine- + -æsthesia.

Questions about kinæsthesia

What is kinæsthesia the obsolete form of?
Kinæsthesia is the obsolete form of kinesthesia.

Words near kinæsthesia in the dictionary

  1. Kinzinger
  2. Kinzingers
  3. Kinzler
  4. Kinzlers
  5. kinæstheses
  6. kinæsthesia
  7. kinæsthesis
  8. kinæsthetic
  9. Kio
  10. kioea
  11. kioeas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kinæsthesia (page history and authors); kinesthesia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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