NOUN | cognition | cutaneous senses, touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality | the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands) |
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Meaning | The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands). | |
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Synonyms | touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality | |
Part of | somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense | The faculty of bodily perception |
Broader | exteroception | sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body |
somatosense | 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 | |
Spanish | sentido del tacto, tacto | |
Catalan | tacte |
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