Kinesia

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The act or state of bodily movement or physical motion
2. Movement of the body or its parts in space or through time
3. The ability or process of moving from one place or position to another

Etymology: "Kinesia" is a modern coinage built from Ancient Greek "kínēsis," meaning "motion," and the suffix "-ia," which in Greek and English forms names of conditions or states. Put together, the pieces describe a state of movement, and the word's usefulness comes from its place in medicine and psychology, where it names a kind of movement or motor activity rather than a disorder in itself. The Greek root is also the source of the more familiar "kinesis," which gives English "kinetic" and "cinema," the latter a shortening of "cinematograph," a device for projecting moving pictures. The shared root shows that much of modern English vocabulary about movement traces back to one short Greek noun.