locomotion
2 synonyms and 1 antonym for locomotion, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — The power to travel from one place to another, or the act of moving.
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motivity
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Etymology
This word came into English from French locomotion, from Latin locō (literally “from a place”, the ablative of locus, “place”) plus mōtiōnem (“motion, a moving”, nominative mōtio), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), which goes back to Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”).
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