SOMESTHESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does somesthesia mean? 

• SOMESTHESIA (noun)
  The noun SOMESTHESIA has 2 senses:

1. the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations

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

  Familiarity information: SOMESTHESIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMESTHESIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

somaesthesia; somatesthesia; somatic sensation; somesthesia

Context example:

he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes

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

perception (the process of perceiving)

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

feeling (a physical sensation that you experience)

prickling; tingle; tingling (a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings)

pressure; pressure sensation (the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin)

pain; pain sensation; painful sensation (a somatic sensation of acute discomfort)

temperature (the somatic sensation of cold or heat)

Sense 2

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 ("somesthesia" is a kind of...):

interoception (sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body)

Meronyms (parts of "somesthesia"):

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 "somesthesia"):

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)