| NOUN | cognition | proprioception | the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts |
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| Meaning | The ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts. | |
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| Part of | somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense | The faculty of bodily perception |
| Narrower | equilibrium, labyrinthine sense, vestibular sense, sense of balance, sense of equilibrium | A sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head |
| kinanesthesia | inability to sense movement | |
| kinesthesis, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement | The ability to feel movements of the limbs and body | |
| Broader | interoception | sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body |
| Spanish | propiocepción | |
| Adjectives | proprioceptive | of or relating to proprioception |
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