Motivity
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The power to cause movement, especially as an inherent mental faculty. countable, uncountable
"The soul is what moves the body and perceives sensible objects; it is characterized by self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and motivity (413b); but the mind has the higher function of thinking, which has no relation to the body or to the senses."
- 2 the power or ability to move wordnet
- 3 Driving force, drive; creative power, invention. countable, uncountable
"This is the prime motivity. And the motivity of sex is subsidiary to this: often directly antagonistic."
- 4 Movement, mobility. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"The soul is what moves the body and perceives sensible objects; it is characterized by self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and motivity (413b); but the mind has the higher function of thinking, which has no relation to the body or to the senses."
Etymology
From motive + -ity.
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