Synonyms: skin senses, sense of touch, touch, touch modality, cutaneous senses
Definition: the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
Usage: only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us
Similar words: exteroception
Definition: sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
Similar words: somatosense
Definition: 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