TACTUAL SENSATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tactual sensation mean? 

• TACTUAL SENSATION (noun)
  The noun TACTUAL SENSATION has 2 senses:

1. the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin

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

  Familiarity information: TACTUAL SENSATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TACTUAL SENSATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

feeling; tactile sensation; tactual sensation; touch; touch sensation

Context example:

the surface had a greasy feeling

Hypernyms ("tactual sensation" is a kind of...):

perception (the process of perceiving)

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

creepiness (an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin)

cutaneous sensation; haptic sensation; skin sensation (a sensation localized on the skin)

Sense 2

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 ("tactual sensation" 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)