motivity
nounEtymology From motive + -ity.
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences The power to cause movement, especially as an inherent mental faculty.
- 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.1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy:
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Driving force, drive; creative power, invention.
- This is the prime motivity. And the motivity of sex is subsidiary to this: often directly antagonistic.1922, DH Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious:
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Biology, Natural sciences Movement, mobility.
- Synonyms
- locomotion