TOUCH PERCEPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does touch perception mean? 

• TOUCH PERCEPTION (noun)
  The noun TOUCH PERCEPTION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TOUCH PERCEPTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOUCH PERCEPTION (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 ("touch perception" 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)