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noun
The condition of being tactile (relating to or able to be perceived by the sense of touch).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: tactuality
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The ability to feel pressure or pain through touch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: tactual sensation, touch perception, skin perceptiveness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense
History
Etymology tree English tactile Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English tactility From tactile + -ity.
Across languages
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