different between motoric vs motorik

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Etymology

motor +? -ic

Adjective

motoric (comparative more motoric, superlative most motoric)

1. (biology) Relating to the motor faculties.
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

     The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).

2. (music, of a rhythm) Based on repetition of a single note length.

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Adjective

motorik (comparative more motorik, superlative most motorik)

1. (music, informal) Having a rigid, repetitive, driving 4/4 beat, as in krautrock.
   • 1996, Jim DeRogatis, Kaleidoscope eyes: psychedelic rock from the '60s to the '90s

     ...explores the anti-auto tirades of Peggy Suicide while (ironically) paying tribute to the motorik beat and highway sounds of Neu! and krautrock.

   • 2007, Phil Freeman, Marooned: the next generation of desert island discs

     ...with occasional C-sharp and B chords thrown in there to relieve the tension, and a motorik beat.