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    SENSE OF TOUCH

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)play

    Example:

    only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us

    Synonyms:

    cutaneous senses; sense of touch; skin senses; touch; touch modality

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("sense of touch" is a kind of...):

    exteroception (sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body)

    somatosense (any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain)

    Holonyms ("sense of touch" is a part of...):

    somaesthesia; somaesthesis; somataesthesis; somatesthesia; somatic sense; somatic sensory system; somatosensory system; somesthesia; somesthesis (the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs)

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