English > sense of touch: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands). |
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| Synonyms | touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses |
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| Part of | somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense | The faculty of bodily perception |
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| Broader | exteroception | sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body |
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| 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 |
| Catalan | tacte |
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| Spanish | tacto |
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