Word.ws English Dictionary

microgenesis

microgenesis noun: the condition of a body part which has developed abnormally small.

Noun

microgenesis (plural microgeneses)

  1. The condition of a body part which has developed abnormally small.
  2. (jargon) The development, in discrete but generally imperceptible (seemingly continuous) increments, by the human body or brain, of thoughts, motions, or actions.
    • The term microgenesis has been proposed for the continuous formative activity which underlies cognition.1975, American Handbook of Psychiatry: Organic Disorder and Psychosomatic Medicine, page 272
    • Goldberg (1985) has proposed that the SMA is part of a medial system which is crucial in the programming and fluent execution of movements on the basis of internal models of reality. He hypothesized that there are two stages in the microgenesis of movement, each stage being a loop consisting of a...1990, G. Jason, Geoffrey Hammond, Cerebral Control of Speech and Limb Movements, page 154

microgenesis meaning in Tamil

microgenesis in Tamil

இயல்பற்ற உறுப்பு வளர்ச்சிக்குறை

Examples of microgenesis in a sentence

  • He hypothesized that there are two stages in the microgenesis of movement, each stage being a loop consisting of a number of cortical and subcortical structures.1990, G. Jason, Geoffrey Hammond, Cerebral Control of Speech and Limb Movements, page 154:
  • The intention of this paper is to open up a dialogue on the wider implications of microgenesis, particularly as it applies to the process-relational view of intersubjectivity.2008, Mark Germine, The microgenesis of antisociality: a process-relational perspective, which is chapter 6 of Neuropsychology and...

Forms of microgenesis

pluralmicrogeneses

Origin of microgenesis

From micro- + genesis.

Questions about microgenesis

What does microgenesis mean?
Microgenesis means the condition of a body part which has developed abnormally small.
What is microgenesis in Tamil?
Microgenesis in Tamil is இயல்பற்ற உறுப்பு வளர்ச்சிக்குறை. See Microgenesis meaning in Tamil.
How do you use microgenesis in a sentence?
He hypothesized that there are two stages in the microgenesis of movement, each stage being a loop consisting of a number of cortical and subcortical structures.
What part of speech is microgenesis?
Microgenesis is a noun.
What is the plural of microgenesis?
The plural of microgenesis is microgeneses.

Words near microgenesis in the dictionary

  1. microgenerational
  2. microgenerations
  3. microgenerator
  4. microgenerators
  5. microgeneses
  6. microgenesis
  7. microgenia
  8. microgenic
  9. microgenitalia
  10. microgenitalism
  11. microgenome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: microgenesis (page history and authors); microgenesis (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “microgenesis.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/microgenesis. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.