muscle sense
- noun
- /ˈmʌsəl sɛns/
- Specialized
:
sentido muscular
- Even with her eyes closed, she relied on her muscle sense to touch her nose.
Examples
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Good muscle sense is essential for gymnasts to perform complex routines accurately.
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Physical therapists often test a patient's muscle sense after an injury to assess recovery.
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She has a keen muscle sense when dancing.
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His muscle sense helps him excel in sports.
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Good muscle sense allows athletes to perform movements without having to look at their bodies.
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Physical therapists assess a patient's muscle sense to determine their proprioception and recovery progress.
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Gymnasts rely heavily on their muscle sense to execute precise movements during their routines.
Synonyms
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9.9
The sense that tells you where your body parts are and how they move
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9.8
The sense that tells you where your body parts are, how they move, and how tight they are
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6.0
The feeling of where and how your arms or legs move
To feel where your body parts are and how they move
Awareness of how your body parts move and where they are
To feel and know where your body, arms, and legs are and how they move
A sense of where your arms and legs are and how they change position
The feelings your body gets from skin, muscles, joints, and organs like touch, temperature, pain, and body position
To feel touch, know where your body parts are, and notice feelings inside your body
The ability to feel touch, pain, temperature, body position, and internal organs
The sense of feeling touch, temperature, pain, and body position
A feeling in your body that tells you about touch or where your arms and legs are
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly inferable as a bodily "sense" coming from "muscles": combining 'muscle' (body tissue that produces movement) with 'sense' (a bodily faculty) yields the idea of perceiving muscle/limb position and movement. Although the term is somewhat technical (proprioception), the compositional logic is straightforward and cross‑linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Muscle sense comes from the simple image of your muscle sending messages to the brain that tell you where your arms and legs are. So 'muscle sense' means the 'ability to know where your body is' and to move without looking.