Tactility (Noun)
Meaning
The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The Tactility of her fingers brushing against rough stone provided a grounding sense of connection to nature.
- Researchers studied the effects of age on Tactility, examining declining sensitivity in human skin.
- The new wheelchair was designed with heightened Tactility in mind, featuring vibrating alarms for enhanced sensory feedback.
- She relished the Tactility of a gentle breeze on her face as she stood by the open window.
- Damage to her nerves resulted in diminished Tactility, and she often found herself searching for burn marks on her skin.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
- Somatic Sensory System
- Somaesthesia
- Somesthesia
- Somatosensory System
- Somatic Sense
- Somatesthesia
- Somaesthesis
- Somataesthesis