ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Motoric

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Motoric is an adjective meaning (biology) Relating to the motor faculties.

Meaning

(biology) Relating to the motor faculties.

More Meanings

  1. (music, of a rhythm) Based on repetition of a single note length.

Example Sentences

The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).
In between were the Bang on a Can All-Stars, a contemporary chamber-music group, playing the part of their repertory — drum-driven, motoric, yet by no means primitive — closest to rock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include motorical, motory, motor, motorlike, motive, kinetic.

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