Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The sense that detects bodily position, weight, or movement of the muscles, tendons, and joints.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See kinæsthesia.

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

  • See kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, and kinaesthetic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Sensation or perception of motion.
  • noun proprioception or static position sense; the perception of the position and posture of the body; also, more broadly, including the motion of the body as well.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body
  • noun the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek kīnein, to move; see keiə- in Indo-European roots + esthesia.]

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Ancient Greek κινέω (cineō, put in motion) + αἴσθησις (aesthēsis, sensation) in form -αισθησία after anaesthesia, etc. Compare kinesthesis and Modern Greek κιναισθησία.

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Examples

  • I get how sensory-motor amnesia affect kinesthesia and movement, but fatigue seems like another level.

    Dar Kush Steven Barnes 2010

  • My primary sense is kinesthesia; I can remember what it felt like to move around in places where I used to live much better than what they looked like.

    Back on line 2007

  • There's a very much better vocabulary for sight, and a much better one for hearing, than for either kinesthesia or touch.

    Back on line 2007

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  • My strongest "visualization" is a combination of touch and kinesthesia/other internal feelings.

    Another Day in the Ketchup Mine 2005

  • Because when I wasn't in kinesthesia, the machine kept my body totally inert and zapped my brain with four millennia's worth of military facts and theories.

    The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975

  • Because when I wasn't in kinesthesia, the machine kept my body totally inert and zapped my brain with four millennia's worth of military facts and theories.

    The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975

  • Cybernetically-controlled negative feedback kinesthesia; I felt the weapons in my hands and watched my performance with them.

    The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975

  • Cybernetically-controlled negative feedback kinesthesia; I felt the weapons in my hands and watched my performance with them.

    The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975

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