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motility
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensation, especially of touch |
| Synonyms: | activity, awareness, consciousness, enjoyment, excitability, excitation, excitement, feel, innervation, motility, motor response, pain, perceiving, perception, pleasure, reaction, receptivity, reflex, responsiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, tactility, tangibility, titillation |
| Antonyms: | insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | motion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement, action |
| Synonyms: | act, advance, agitation, ambulation, body English, change, changing, direction, drift, dynamics, flow, fluctuation, flux, full swing, gesticulation, gesture, high sign, inclination, kinetics, locomotion, mobility, motility, move, oscillation, passage, passing, progress, sign, signal, stir, stirring, stream, sway, sweep, swing, tendency, travel, wave, wavering |
| Antonyms: | immobility, repose, rest, stagnation, stiffness, stillness |
| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion, activity |
| Synonyms: | act, action, advance, agitation, alteration, change, changing, deed, development, displacement, dynamism, evolution, evolving, exercise, flight, flow, flux, gesture, journey, journeying, locomotion, maneuver, migration, mobility, motility, movableness, move, moving, operation, operativeness, passage, progress, progression, regression, roaming, shift, shifting, steps, stir, stirring, transferal, transit, translating, transplanting, undertaking, velocity, voyaging, wandering |
| Antonyms: | cessation, halt, inaction, inactivity, pause, stoppage |
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| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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brachiating, catabatic, circumambient, coxinutant, cursorial, dextrosinistral, digitigrade, drawing, erratic, feirie, formicating, gestic, glad, in motion, irpe, irreptitious, laterigrade, left, mercurial, mobile, motile, motive, motory, movable, moving, murgeoning, nomadic, paradromic, pedestrious, pinnigrade, proal, projectile, pronograde, propelled, propelling, propulsive, recoiling, rectigrade, reptant, restless, shanks', sinistrodextral, subsultive, sure, transitional, unquiet, vermigrade, viaggiatory, wandle
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| Concept: | Feeling. |
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-nouns
feeling; suffering; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response; sympathy (love); impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense., warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressment, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism; excitation of feeling; fullness of the heart (disposition); passion (state of excitability); ecstasy, ectasy (pleasure)., blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.
-verbs
feel; receive an impression; be impressed with; entertain feeling, harbor feeling, cherish feeling, respond; catch the flame, catch the infection; enter the spirit of., bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole, aby; abide (be composed); experience (meet with); taste, prove; labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand., swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake; be agitated, be excited [more]; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath., impress (excite the feelings).
-adjectives
feeling; sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling, warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic., impressive, deep, profound, indelible; deep felt, home felt, heartfelt; swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic.
-adverbs
heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears.
-phrases
the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the
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| Concept: | [Successive change of place] Motion. |
| Category: | 1. Motion in General |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
motion, movement, move; going; unrest., stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis., step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey; voyage; transit., restlessness (changeableness); mobility; movableness, motive power; laws of motion; mobilization.
-verbs
be in motion; move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;., put in motion, set in motion; move; impel; propel; render movable, mobilize.
-adjectives
moving; in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless (changeable); nomadic; erratic.
-adverbs
under way; on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march.
-phrases
eppur si muove [Galileo]; es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
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| Antonyms: | quiescence |
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