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TACTUAL SENSATION
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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 ("tactual sensation" 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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
Example:
the surface had a greasy feeling
Synonyms:
feeling; tactile sensation; tactual sensation; touch; touch sensation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("tactual sensation" is a kind of...):
perception (the process of perceiving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tactual sensation"):
creepiness (an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin)
cutaneous sensation; haptic sensation; skin sensation (a sensation localized on the skin)
