Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Movement or activity of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any manifestation of dynamic energy.
- noun In cytology, a short expression for karyokinesis.
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- noun the
movement of anorganism inresponse to anexternal stimulus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Also, for Aristotle, movement in a broad sense, which he termed kinesis, separated the animate from the inanimate, and without kinesis there would be no soul, and thus no kind of consciousness or intuition.
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I thought that mental manipulation of things ended in kinesis.
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And the old word kinesis will be correctly given as iesis in corresponding modern letters.
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And the old word kinesis will be correctly given as iesis in corresponding modern letters.
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I did a kinesis class, 45 minutes on the weights, and then I've done 20 minutes on a stationary bike.
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You can use - kinesis, - pathic, - technic … Pyrokinesis, pyrotechnic, pyropathic.
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Change, or movement, or motion (kinesis) is the chief subject of the work.
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Change, or movement, or motion (kinesis) is the chief subject of the work.
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This could be considered the kinesis of the poem, what animates it ...
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This could be considered the kinesis of the poem, what animates it from start to finish.
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