tac·tile (t k t l, -t l )adj. 1. a. Perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible. b. Characterized by or conveying an illusion of tangibility: "Heaney must thus continue to be a poet rich in tactile language" (Helen Vendler). 2. Used for feeling: a tactile organ. 3. Of, relating to, or proceeding from the sense of touch; tactual: a tactile reflex. [From Latin t  ctilis, from tctus, past participle of tangere, to touch; see tact.]tac tile·ly adv.tac·til i·ty (-t l-t ) n. |
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| Noun | 1. |  tactility - the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or painsomatic 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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