motivity
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]motivity (countable and uncountable, plural motivities)
- The power or ability to move
- 1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy:
- 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.