tactility

Definitions of tactility
  1. noun
    the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain
    synonyms: skin perceptiveness, tactual sensation, touch perception
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    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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