Synonyms: touch perception, tactility, tactual sensation, skin perceptiveness
Definition: the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain
Similar words: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis
Definition: the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
Synonyms: feeling, tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation
Definition: the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
Usage: she likes the touch of silk on her skin; the surface had a greasy feeling
Similar words: perception
Definition: the process of perceiving