kinaesthesia

Definitions of kinaesthesia

1. noun

   the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc
   synonyms: feeling of movement, kinesthesia

   type 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
2. noun

   the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body
   synonyms: kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinesthesis, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement

   type of:

   proprioception

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