motivity
English
Etymology
motive + -ity
Noun
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.
- 1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
Synonyms
- locomotion
Related terms
- motile
- motive