Definition of "motivity" []

• The power of moving or causing motion. (noun)

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• "It is the mind in which this historical principle, this motivity which is not reason, is brought in contact with the opposing and controlling element as it had not been before."
• "Thinking and motivity the primary ideas peculiar to spirit."
• "At present we must confine ourselves to saying that soul is the source of these phenomena and is characterized by them, viz. by the powers of self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and motivity."