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TOUCH MODALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does touch modality mean?
• TOUCH MODALITY (noun)
The noun TOUCH MODALITY has 1 sense:
1. the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
Familiarity information: TOUCH MODALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("touch modality" 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 ("touch modality" 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)
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