Definition of PROPRIOCEPTION

proprioception

Plural: proprioceptions

Noun

  • the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts
  • The sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body.

Origin / Etymology

From proprioceptor, from Latin proprius (“one's own”) + reception. Coined by British neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington in 1906.

Synonyms

kinesthesia, sixth sense

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