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vection

vection

9.9
A feeling of movement when your body is still
  • noun
  • /ˈvɛkʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sensación de movimiento
  • Passengers sometimes experience vection when watching fast-moving landscapes from a train window.

Examples

  • The virtual reality game produced a strong feeling of vection as the scenery moved around the player.

  • Researchers study vection to understand how the brain interprets visual motion cues.

  • I felt vection while watching the train speed by.

  • The sensation of vection can be quite intense!

  • When watching the spinning carousel, I felt a strong sense of vection as if I were moving too.

  • The video game created a convincing vection effect that made me feel like I was racing through the streets.

  • While sitting in the stationary car, the passing scenery gave me the sensation of vection, making it feel like I was moving.

Surface Forms

vection singular
vections plural

Morphology

vection = vect + ion

The technical sense 'sensation of being carried' is conceptually related to 'carry' (the underlying root meaning) but is specialised and the combining form 'vect-' is not an independent English word, so the relation is only partly accessible to learners.

Etymology

The word vection comes from the Latin root veh- meaning 'to carry', the same root as vehicle. So vection is used for the strange feeling of moving when you are still, because it feels like you are 'being carried' by what you see or feel.