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kinesthetic

kinesthesia \kin`es*the"sia\, kinesthesis \kin`es*the"sis\ kinesthetic \kin`es*thet"ic\ See kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, and kinaesthetic.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kinesthetic

also kinaesthetic, "pertaining to kinesthesia," 1880, coined by British neurologist Henry Charlton Bastian (1837-1915) from Greek kinein "to move" (see cite) + aisthesis "sensation" (see anaesthesia). Perhaps on model of aesthetic, prosthetic.

Wiktionary
kinesthetic

a. Of or relating to kinesthesia. alt. Of or relating to kinesthesia.

WordNet
kinesthetic

adj. of or relating to kinesthesis [syn: kinaesthetic]

Usage examples of "kinesthetic".

In the total absence of either visual or kinesthetic cues, your hindbrain decides that the sensation of falling is literal truth, and you just come unstuck.

Like I could see better and hear better and smell better, like my kinesthetic sense was more highly developed.

His body instinctively tightened in kinesthetic sympathy for Le Cagot.

The man has frozen in his tracks, but there is a kinesthetic energy in his posture, as though he would run.

Every time she looked at him, Kierendal well believed the tale that Berne had received Monastic traininghis instinctive weight-forward balance and perfect kinesthetic awareness were both convincing and unsettling.

We are going to be working to reeducate our kinesthetic sensibilities, our sense of our own bodies and their position in space.

Except that people tend to figure out how they think they should stand and move, rather than trusting their built-in mechanism, their kinesthetic sense.

At first you may not be able to feel any movement unless you exaggerate it, but as you continue, your kinesthetic sense will improve.

In fact, he became a human computer, feeding into the kinesthetic part of his brain the relevant data and almost intuitively getting the answer.

When she rolled, her kinesthetic sense detected subtle motions and corresponding recoil in several planes, as though the prison in which she lay was riding on a springy suspension.

Being a great warrior or an expert pilot -- those involve a million subskills, all the way down to kinesthetic things below the level of conscious thought.

The tension was eloquent enough, with its accompanying kinesthetic signals: a rakhene hand tightening on a spear haft.

Hissing commands and arguments in the native dialect, posturing herself to convey a plethora of kinesthetic signals: territorial combat fought with words and hisses, hierarchical issues resolved with the ruffling of fur, the stiffening of neck muscles.

And where do truly profound ideas come from, springing to mind as images or, in the case of Einstein, kinesthetic sensations?

Her kinesthetic sense was acute, she could solve multi-unit three-dimensional vector intercepts in her head (as long as she didnt think about what she was doing), and none of that ability had shown up in her applied mathematics grades.