tactility — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The condition of being tactile (relating to or able to be perceived by the sense of touch).

   Usage

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   Synonyms

   tactuality

   Examples

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   Each time they lay down there together, as if she obeyed a voice that came out of the quilt telling her to put the light out, she would extinguish the candle flame between her finger-tips. All around them, the tactility of the dark.

   1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: Phoenix, 1994, Part 8, p. 554, Maan loved swimming, not for the exercise but for the luxury, the tactility of it.

2. The ability to feel pressure or pain through touch.

   Usage

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   • Uncountable

Noun

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

   Synonyms

   tactual sensationtouch perceptionskin perceptiveness

   Broader terms

   somesthesiasomesthesissomaesthesiasomaesthesissomatesthesiasomataesthesissomatosensory systemsomatic sensory systemsomatic sense