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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See kinesthetic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or involving, kinaesthesia.

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  • adjective Alternative form of kinesthetic.

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  • adjective of or relating to kinesthesis

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Examples

  • Like the hero or heroine, the good thriller writer must have the kind of kinaesthetic grip upon the physical world that is a sine qua non of all effective action and most good fiction.

    John Fraser on thrillers Ed Gorman 2007

  • Like the hero or heroine, the good thriller writer must have the kind of kinaesthetic grip upon the physical world that is a sine qua non of all effective action and most good fiction.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Ed Gorman 2007

  • From Tetsuya Mizuguchi, creator of kinaesthetic masterpiece Rez, comes Child Of Eden, another on-rails shooting game that blends music and psychedelic visuals, while this time letting you control its surreal action using Kinect.

    This week's new video games 2011

  • From Tetsuya Mizuguchi, creator of kinaesthetic masterpiece Rez, comes Child Of Eden, another on-rails shooting game that blends music and psychedelic visuals, while this time letting you control its surreal action using Kinect.

    This week's new video games 2011

  • It is only, I think, the predominance of our visual and kinaesthetic sense of physical orientation, the highly spatial focus of our experience, that leads us to concentrate on those types of perception which model the world as a sort of wireframe simulation, a point-to-point mapping that represents (re-presents) rather than symbolises.

    Creative Control - Part 5 Hal Duncan 2009

  • We process these perceptions, some of which are entirely kinaesthetic senses of our physical selves, parse them into units of events which are in turn parsed into beings and doings, objects and actions, which are in turn parsed into qualities of those objects and actions.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • We process these perceptions, some of which are entirely kinaesthetic senses of our physical selves, parse them into units of events which are in turn parsed into beings and doings, objects and actions, which are in turn parsed into qualities of those objects and actions.

    Creative Control - Part 4 Hal Duncan 2009

  • We do not command those kinaesthetic sensations we call affect, those which take objects or those which don't, our joy and sorrow, fear and anger, disgust and surprise.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • From what I recall of Gardner's model, it is a circular diagram, like a pye chart, equally divided into various intelligences such as mathematical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, kinaesthetic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, musical intelligence and so. on.

    Happiness Police, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • It is only, I think, the predominance of our visual and kinaesthetic sense of physical orientation, the highly spatial focus of our experience, that leads us to concentrate on those types of perception which model the world as a sort of wireframe simulation, a point-to-point mapping that represents (re-presents) rather than symbolises.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009

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