kinaesthesia

noun

🔊/ˌkɪnəsˈθiːziə/, 🔊/ˌkaɪnəsˈθiːziə/

🔊/ˌkɪnəsˈθiːʒə/

(North American English kinesthesia)

[uncountable] (biology生物)

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knowledge of the position and movement of parts of your body, which comes from sense organs in the muscles and joints
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Greek kinein ‘to move’ + aisthēsis ‘sensation’.