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Motivity   Listen
noun
Motivity  n.  
1.
The power of moving or producing motion.
2.
The quality of being influenced by motives. (R.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Motivity" Quotes from Famous Books



... drawn from their mediums. Maxwell makes much of this curious physical sensation which accompanied certain of M. Meurice's phenomena. Here also seemed to be an unconscious corroboration of Albert de Rochas's experiments in the "externalization of motivity," as he calls it. The "cobwebby feeling" of the fingers might mean an actual raying-out of some subtle form of matter. Indeed, M. Meurice, Maxwell's medium, declared he could see "a sheath of filaments pass from his fingers to the objects ...
— The Shadow World • Hamlin Garland



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