kinesthetic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to the sense of bodily position, muscular movement, and effort

   Inner speech may include kinesthetic images of moving the tongue and larynx.

2. 2
   adj

   involving learning or perception through physical movement

   The teacher added a kinesthetic exercise in which students formed the shapes by hand.

Formed from kinesthesia + -ic. Kinesthesia combines Ancient Greek kinein ("to move") + aisthesis ("sensation, perception"). Kinaesthetic is the standard British spelling variant.

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