Complete Definition of "motile"

English
Etymology
From Latin motus.

Pronunciation
IPA|/'m��taɪl/

Adjective
en-adj
#biology having the power to move spontaneously
#:*1993: It seemed to him that, if there were a Holy Trinity as the churches taught, this must be unified through a manner of capillary action, Father merging into Son and both into Holy Ghost. So God is motile as the blood is. � Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford
#psychology of, or related to those mental images that arise from the sensations of bodily movement and position

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