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Motility   /moʊtˈɪlɪti/   Listen
Motility

noun
1.
Ability to move spontaneously and independently.
2.
A change of position that does not entail a change of location.  Synonyms: motion, move, movement.  "Movement is a sign of life" , "An impatient move of his hand" , "Gastrointestinal motility"






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"Motility" Quotes from Famous Books



... asleep. I shall not venture to state what change is produced in the Forec. system by the sleeping state, but there is no doubt that the psychological character of sleep is essentially due to the change of energy in this very system, which also dominates the approach to motility, which is paralyzed during sleep. In contradistinction to this, there seems to be nothing in the psychology of the dream to warrant the assumption that sleep produces any but secondary changes in the conditions of the Unc. system. Hence, ...
— Dream Psychology - Psychoanalysis for Beginners • Sigmund Freud



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