SOMATOSENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does somatosense mean? 

• SOMATOSENSE (noun)
  The noun SOMATOSENSE has 1 sense:

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMATOSENSE (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

modality; sense modality; sensory system (a particular sense)

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

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))

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