TACTILITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("tactility" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

tactile (producing a sensation of touch)

tactile (of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch)