SENSE OF TOUCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sense of touch mean? 

• SENSE OF TOUCH (noun)
  The noun SENSE OF TOUCH has 1 sense:

1. the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)

  Familiarity information: SENSE OF TOUCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSE OF TOUCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

cutaneous senses; sense of touch; skin senses; touch; touch modality

Context example:

only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us

Hypernyms ("sense of touch" is a kind of...):

exteroception (sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body)

somatosense (any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain)

Holonyms ("sense of touch" is a part of...):

somaesthesia; somaesthesis; somataesthesis; somatesthesia; somatic sense; somatic sensory system; somatosensory system; somesthesia; somesthesis (the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs)