mismotion

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ motion.

Noun

mismotion (uncountable)

1. Bad or wrong motion.
   • 2000, Nicholas Delbanco, The Writing Life: The Hopwood Lectures, Fifth Series, page 69:

     He couldn't work at tennis because he was so naturally good at tennis. And when all of those inborn reflexes failed him — as if he were shocked at the mismotion of his own arm, at the slowness of his own leg — then we understood John McEnroe.