Tactility (Noun)

Meaning

The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain.

Classification

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

Synonyms

• Tactual Sensation
• Skin Perceptiveness
• Touch Perception

Hypernyms

• Somatic Sensory System
• Somaesthesia
• Somesthesia
• Somatosensory System
• Somatic Sense
• Somatesthesia
• Somaesthesis
• Somataesthesis

Related Words

• Tactile (adjective)