motivity
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Thus, if only the two bodies are available for engines to work between, the motivity is the measure of the energy lost when conduction brings about equalisation of temperature.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
The history of human nature is glorious, even in its degeneracy, with the exhibition of this larger, nobler form of humanity asserting itself, triumphing over the intensities of the narrower motivity.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon
Is it connected with the phenomena of exteriorization of sensitivity or motivity?
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington
They were appealing to a fictitious motivity, one not grounded in "the nature of things."
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
It carries in its hand, gathered into the simplicity of the causes that are not many, the secret of all motivity, the secret of all practice.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon
