kinaesthesis

Questions about kinaesthesis

What does kinaesthesis mean?

kinaesthesis means "the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body".

How many syllables are in kinaesthesis?

kinaesthesis has 5 syllables and divides as ki-na-es-the-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for kinaesthesis?

Close synonyms include kinesthesis, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, kinesthetics, muscle sense. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kinaesthesis a common word?

kinaesthesis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.