motoric

comparative more motoric · superlative most motoric

1. biologyRelating to the motor faculties.

   The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).

   1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

2. entertainmentBased on repetition of a single note length.

   In between were the Bang on a Can All-Stars, a contemporary chamber-music group, playing the part of their repertory — drum-driven, motoric, yet by no means primitive — closest to rock.

   2007 May 18, Jon Pareles, “A Tenderhearted Introvert, Crooning in Eclectic Company”, in New York Times