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A rare impairment in perceiving motion, causing movement to appear fragmented or absent.
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Movement seems broken into still frames or cannot be seen smoothly.Use for a character who sees motion as discontinuous, not for ordinary slow perception.
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The fan seemed to jump from one frozen position to the next through her akinetopsia.
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