kinesthetics

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kinesthetics - the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body

kinaesthesis, kinesthesis, muscle sense, sense of movement, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia

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

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(28.) A full exploration of kinesthetics in Finnegans Wake is beyond the scope of this essay.

Joyce's reading bodies and the kinesthetics of the modernist novel

Even as he is recounting his private experiences, sympathetic readers will recollect their own experiences of the real world, a region generally out of doors, where one can feel the kinesthetic influences of sun, wind, rain, and physical stress.

Wordsworth's environmental ethics

For Carducci, both the "politics" and the "spirituality" of rock happen through the music's kinesthetics. It's the frictional interaction of riff and rhythm, tension and release, that signifies.