Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - kinesthesia

 or kinesthesis  noun  (plural -thesias or kinestheses)  Etymology: New Latin, from Greek kinein + aisthesis perception — more at anesthesia  Date: 1880 a sense mediated by receptors located in muscles, tendons, and joints and stimulated by bodily movements and tensions; also sensory experience derived from this sense  • kinesthetic adjective  • kinesthetically adverb