English Explanatory Dictionary

proprioceptive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to proprioception.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

proprioceptive

Etymology

Coined by English neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington in 1906, originally in the spelling proprio-ceptive, from proprius + clipped receptive.

Antonyms

exteroceptive

Derived words

exproprioceptive graviproprioceptive nonproprioceptive proprioceptively visuoproprioceptive
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