Motivity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Motivity is a noun meaning (philosophy) The power to cause movement, especially as an inherent mental faculty.
Meaning
(philosophy) The power to cause movement, especially as an inherent mental faculty.
More Meanings
- Driving force, drive; creative power, invention.
- (chiefly biology) Movement, mobility.
Example Sentences
This is the prime motivity. And the motivity of sex is subsidiary to this: often directly antagonistic.
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.
Word Forms
- motivities
Synonyms for motivity
Depending on context, synonyms include locomotion.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include locomotion, motricity, motor, move, self-activity, motorization.
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