| tactual sensation 
 
 1. the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin (Freq. 1)
 - she likes the touch of silk on her skin
 - the surface had a greasy feeling
 • Syn:
 touch, touch sensation, tactile sensation, feeling
 • Derivationally related forms:
 feel (for: feeling), touch (for: touch)
 • Hypernyms:
 perception
 • Hyponyms:
 creepiness, cutaneous sensation, haptic sensation, skin sensation
 2. the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain
 • Syn:
 tactility, touch perception, skin perceptiveness
 • Derivationally related forms:
 tactile (for: tactility)
 • Hypernyms:
 somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia,
 somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense
 
 
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