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noun
All of the various sensory systems in the skin and other bodily tissues responsible for the senses of touch-pressure, warmth and coldness, pain, itch together with positioning and movement
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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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Synonyms: somesthesia, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, 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
History
Blend of somatic + esthesis.
