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TACTILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain
Synonyms:
skin perceptiveness; tactility; tactual sensation; touch perception
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("tactility" is a kind 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)
Derivation:
tactile (producing a sensation of touch)
tactile (of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch)
