eupraxia

English

Etymology

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

Noun

eupraxia (uncountable)

  1. Positive skills related to movement.
    • 1997, M. L. Broesterhuizen, “Psychological assessment of deaf children”, in Scand Audiol Suppl.‎[1], pages 43-49:
      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.
  2. Eupraxy.
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