KINESTHESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kinesthesia mean? 

• KINESTHESIA (noun)
  The noun KINESTHESIA has 2 senses:

1. the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc

2. the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body

  Familiarity information: KINESTHESIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINESTHESIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

feeling of movement; kinaesthesia; kinesthesia

Hypernyms ("kinesthesia" is a kind of...):

somatosense (any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain)

somaesthesia; somaesthesis; somataesthesis; somatesthesia; somatic sense; somatic sensory system; somatosensory system; somesthesia; somesthesis (the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs)

Derivation:

kinesthetic (of or relating to kinesthesis)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The ability to feel movements of the limbs and body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

kinaesthesia; kinaesthesis; kinesthesia; kinesthesis; kinesthetics; muscle sense; sense of movement

Hypernyms ("kinesthesia" is a kind of...):

proprioception (the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts)

Antonym:

kinanesthesia (inability to sense movement)

Derivation:

kinesthetic (of or relating to kinesthesis)