etienne_jules_marey_4Etymology:  < French motricité (1855) < motrice , feminine of moteur (adjective; see MOTORadj.) + -ité-ITY suffix.

Physiology 

Motor function; the faculty or power of movement by the body or a body part.

‘motricity, n.’. OED Online. June 2015. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/view/Entry/122763?redirectedFrom=motricity&amp; (accessed August 13, 2015)

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