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motivities

motivities is the plural of motivity.

Meaning of motivity

Noun

motivity (countable and uncountable, plural motivities)

  1. The power to cause movement, especially as an inherent mental faculty.
    • The soul is what moves the body and perceives sensible objects; it is characterized by self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and motivity (413b); but the mind has the higher function of thinking, which has no relation to the body or to the senses.1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
  2. Driving force, drive; creative power, invention.
    • This is the prime motivity. And the motivity of sex is subsidiary to this: often directly antagonistic.1922, DH Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious
  3. Movement, mobility.

Questions about motivities

What is motivities the plural of?
Motivities is the plural of motivity.

Words near motivities in the dictionary

  1. motives
  2. motivi
  3. motivic
  4. motivically
  5. motiving
  6. motivities
  7. motivity
  8. motivo
  9. motivological
  10. motivology
  11. motivos

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