kinaesthesia
noun/ˌkɪnəsˈθiːziə/, /ˌkaɪnəsˈθiːziə/
/ˌkɪnəsˈθiːʒə/
(North American English kinesthesia)
[uncountable] (biology)- knowledge of the position and movement of parts of your body, which comes from sense organs in the muscles and jointsWord Originlate 19th cent.: from Greek kinein ‘to move’ + aisthēsis ‘sensation’.
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