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{
"form": "motiles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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],
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{
"categories": [
"en:Psychology"
],
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"A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc."
],
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"psychology",
"psychology"
]
],
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"(psychology) A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc."
],
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"human-sciences",
"psychology",
"sciences"
]
}
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"US"
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}
],
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}
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