motile

Meanings

Adjective

• Having the power to move spontaneously.
• Producing motion.
• Of or relating to those mental images that arise from the sensations of bodily movement and position.

Noun

• A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc.

Related

Opposite words

• sessile

Origin

• From Latin mōtus, perfect passive participle of moveō (English move).