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motivity

motivity noun: the power to cause movement, especially as an inherent mental faculty.

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.

Synonyms of motivity

Forms of motivity

pluralmotivities

Origin of motivity

From motive + -ity.

Questions about motivity

What does motivity mean?
Motivity means the power to cause movement, especially as an inherent mental faculty.
What part of speech is motivity?
Motivity is a noun.
What is the plural of motivity?
The plural of motivity is motivities.

Words near motivity in the dictionary

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

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