eupraxia

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noun

Positive skills related to movement.

OriginAncient Greek εὐπραξία →
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Meanings

nouneupraxia (uncountable)
  1. uncountablePositive skills related to movement.

    Both studies show that speech and speech reading skills in deaf preschool children age 3.5 to 6 years depend strongly on fine motor skill of hand and mouth, successive memory and memory for rhythm. These three interdependent skills are taken as three aspects of eupraxia.

    1997, M. L. Broesterhuizen, “Psychological assessment of deaf children”, in Scand Audiol Suppl., pages 43-49
  2. uncountableEupraxy.

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekεὐπραξία“living well, acting well”
  2. Englisheupraxia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek εὐπραξία (eupraxía, “living well, acting well”), equivalent to eu- + -praxia.

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Chicago

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