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kinesthesia
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kinesthesia /kin·es·the·sia/ (kin″es-the´zhah)
1. the awareness of position, weight, tension and movement.
2. movement sense.kinesthet´ic
kin·es·the·sia (kns-thzh, kns-)
n.
1. The sense that detects bodily position, weight, or movement of the muscles, tendons, and joints.
2. The sensation of moving in space.
kines·thetic (-thtk) adj.
kinesthesia
[kin′esthē′zhə]
Etymology: Gk, kinesis, motion, aisthesis, feeling
the perception of one's own body parts, weight, and movement. Also spelled kinaesthesia.
kinesthesia (kiˈ·ns·thēˑ·sē·),
n the sense through which somatic elements such as body position, muscle tension, and weight are perceived.
kinesthesia
the sense by which position, weight and movement are perceived.


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Lastly, Edwin Gordon, a predominant music educator in the United States, asserts that rhythm readiness is associated with the ability to feel rhythm patterns kinesthetically.
Movement activities for learning-disabled piano students by Crouch, Sarah / American Music Teacher
In this earlier moment, artists as diverse as Dan Graham, Peter Campus, Bruce Nauman, and Joan Jonas established feedback loops of live cameras and monitors into which viewers could wander: Sometimes their images were replayed to themselves in altered form, as in Campus's works, and sometimes spectators encountered their displaced projections on a short delay or in kinesthetically disorienting environments, as in installations by Nauman and Graham.
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The perception of beauty, likewise felt kinesthetically in the open air, also provides an experience essentially religious, though its effect is integrative rather than awesome.
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