sense of touch

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sense of touch - the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us"

cutaneous senses, skin senses, touch modality, touch

exteroception - sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body

somatosense - any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain

somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somesthesia - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs

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cutaneous senses cutis exteroception feel feel like feel out feel up haptic skin senses somaesthesis somataesthesis somatesthesia somatic sense somatic sensory system somatosense somatosensory system somesthesia somesthesis tact			Long practice and training, begun in the schools and continued in the experience of daily life, enable us to discriminate at once by the sense of touch, between the angles of an equal-sided Triangle, Square, and Pentagon; and I need not say that the brainless vertex of an acute-angled Isosceles is obvious to the dullest touch. Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context Third: I cannot demonstrate it, but it seems to me, that in the whale the sense of touch is concentrated in the tail; for in this respect there is a delicacy in it only equalled by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context Yet, father, if I had been stone blind; if I had groped my way by my sense of touch, and had been free, while I knew the shapes and surfaces of things, to exercise my fancy somewhat, in regard to them; I should have been a million times wiser, happier, more loving, more contented, more innocent and human in all good respects, than I am with the eyes I have. Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context			sensationalist sensationalistic sensationalize sensationally sense Sense capsule sense datum sense experience sense impression sense modality sense of balance sense of direction sense of duty sense of equilibrium sense of hearing sense of humor sense of humour sense of movement sense of purpose sense of responsibility sense of right and wrong sense of shame sense of smell sense of taste sense of the meeting sense of touch sense organ Sense organule sense perception sense tagger sensed Senseful sensei senseless senselessly senselessness sensi sensibilia sensibilise sensibilities sensibility sensibilize sensible sensible horizon Sensible note sensibleness sensibly Sensifacient Sensiferous Sensific Sensificatory			sense of humor sense of humor Sense of Humor Required sense of humour sense of humour Sense of Humour Bypass Sense of Humour Failure sense of language sense of moral right sense of movement sense of obligation Sense of place sense of proportion sense of purpose sense of responsibility sense of responsibility sense of right and wrong sense of right and wrong Sense of Security sense of shame Sense of sight Sense of sight Sense of sight Sense of sight sense of smell sense of smell sense of smell Sense of Smell Institute sense of taste sense of the meeting sense of touch Sense of Urgency sense organ sense organ sense organ Sense Organs Sense Organs Sense Organs Sense Organs Sense organule sense perception sense perception sense perception sense perception Sense Selection Network Sense strand Sense strand Sense strand Sense strand sense switch sense tagger Sense Through-The-Wall Sense, Search And Destroy Armor Sense-data Sense-Model-Plan-Act sensed sensed sensed sensed sensed Senseful

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