Touch Perception (Noun)

Meaning

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

Classification

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

Synonyms

• Tactility
• Tactual Sensation
• Skin Perceptiveness

Hypernyms

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