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mismotion en · NOUN

Etymology

From mis- + motion.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Bad or wrong motion.
    • He couldn't work at tennis because he was so naturally good at tennis. And when all of those inborn reflexes failed him — as if he were shocked at the mismotion of his own arm, at the slowness of his own leg — then we understood John McEnroe. 2000, Nicholas Delbanco, The Writing Life: The Hopwood Lectures, Fifth Series, page 69: