Definition of "kinesis" []

• Movement or activity of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light. (noun)

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• "Also, for Aristotle, movement in a broad sense, which he termed kinesis, separated the animate from the inanimate, and without kinesis there would be no soul, and thus no kind of consciousness or intuition."
• "I thought that mental manipulation of things ended in kinesis."
• "And the old word kinesis will be correctly given as iesis in corresponding modern letters."