noun
Meaning 1
awareness of one's own body
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
somatesthesia
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noun
Meaning 2
the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: interoception
Narrower terms: tactual sensation, tactility, touch perception, skin perceptiveness, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, feeling of movement
noun
Meaning 3
the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatic sensation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: perception
Narrower terms: feeling, prickling, tingle, tingling, pressure, pressure sensation, pain, pain sensation, painful sensation, temperature
History
Etymology
From somato- + -esthesia.