akinesia

[ ey-ki-nee-zhuh, -kahy- ]

noun

, Pathology.

1. absence, loss, or impairment of the power of voluntary movement.

Other Words From

• a·ki·net·ic [ey-ki-, net, -ik, -kahy-], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of akinesia¹

< New Latin < Greek akīnēsíā; a- ⁶, -kinesia

Example Sentences

On rereading Awakenings, I realised that its schema was a gift for a novelist; there was the five-decade caesura in these patients' lives that coincided with the core of the 20th century – and in particular with the mechanisation of ordinary life – and there were their symptoms of ticcing and jerking, of festination, hypertonia and akinesia; exaggerated physical states that seemed to mirror the mechanical.

From The Guardian