proprioception
noun
pro·pri·o·cep·tion
ˌprō-prē-ō-ˈsep-shən 
: the reception of stimuli produced within the organism
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This is a man who spent more than three months last summer in a Zen monastery learning mindfulness techniques and proprioception awareness.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 June 2026
What Wembanyama does out there on the floor is at a billion on the proprioception scale.
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Atlas also uses proprioception, which means internal body awareness.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 June 2026
What Wembanyama does out there on the floor is at a billion on the proprioception scale.
—Jared Weiss, New York Times, 10 June 2026
Atlas also uses proprioception, which means internal body awareness.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 May 2026
Unlike vision-only systems, Atlas relies heavily on proprioception—internal sensing of body position, load, balance, grip, and resistance—while manipulating objects.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for proprioception
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proprioception
noun
pro·prio·cep·tion
ˌprō-prē-ō-ˈsep-shən
: the reception of stimuli produced within the organism
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