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tactuality

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The quality of being tactual (relating to the sense of touch); that which concerns or is characterized by touch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • 1858, William Robinson Pirie, An Inquiry into the Constitution, Powers, and Processes of the Human Mind, Aberdeen: A. Brown, Chapter 7, p. 398, [...] we are just as conscious of a cause of vision as of a cause of tactual feeling, and it is not improbable that we have even a sense of tactuality, if we may so speak, in the secondary sensations.

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History

Etymology

From tactual + -ity.