TACTILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tactility mean? 

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

1. the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TACTILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

skin perceptiveness; tactility; tactual sensation; touch perception

Hypernyms ("tactility" is a kind 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)

Derivation:

tactile (producing a sensation of touch)

tactile (of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch)