motor-minded, a.
(stress variable)
[f. motor n. and a. + minded ppl. a.]
1. Psychol. Having a mind in which motor images predominate over visual and auditory ones; thinking largely in terms of movements.
| 1897 Psychol. Rev. Monogr. Suppl. II. i. 40 This, in itself, does not prove that motor-minded persons are less intelligent readers than auditory- or visual-minded. 1900 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XI. 297 Consonants were not thought to be generally more important than vowels for word perception. The relative importance of these elements might depend upon the reader's tendency to be motor or auditory minded. 1904 W. James in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 98/1 Every one knows that in some of us the material of thought is mainly optical, in others auditory, etc., and the classification of human beings into the eye-minded, the ear-minded, and the motor-minded, is familiar. |
2. Interested in motor vehicles.
| 1927 Glasgow Herald 14 Oct. 8 With motor trade exhibitions running..in London (at Olympia) and in Paris.., the motor-minded have got quite a lot to talk about. |
So ˌmotor-ˈmindedness, the state of being motor-minded (sense 1).
| 1897 Psychol. Rev. Monogr. Suppl. II. i. 41 It is evident that motor-mindedness is far from being an advantage to a reader. 1902 [see ear-mindedness]. |