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SOMATAESTHESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does somataesthesis mean? 

SOMATAESTHESIS (noun)
  The noun SOMATAESTHESIS has 1 sense:

1. the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organsplay

  Familiarity information: SOMATAESTHESIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SOMATAESTHESIS (noun)


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Meaning:

The faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

somaesthesia; somaesthesis; somataesthesis; somatesthesia; somatic sense; somatic sensory system; somatosensory system; somesthesia; somesthesis

Hypernyms ("somataesthesis" is a kind of...):

interoception (sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body)

Meronyms (parts of "somataesthesis"):

cutaneous senses; sense of touch; skin senses; touch; touch modality (the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands))

proprioception (the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "somataesthesis"):

skin perceptiveness; tactility; tactual sensation; touch perception (the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain)

feeling of movement; kinaesthesia; kinesthesia (the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc)


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