motivity
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3ADJ.
prime
VERB + MOTIVITY
thinking
MOTIVITY + NOUN
413b, sex
Definitions
noun
The power to cause movement, especially as an inherent mental faculty.
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.
Driving force, drive; creative power, invention.
This is the prime motivity. And the motivity of sex is subsidiary to this: often directly antagonistic.
Movement, mobility.
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noun — the power or ability to move
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2The 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
WiktionaryThis is the prime motivity. And the motivity of sex is subsidiary to this: often directly antagonistic.
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