| NOUN | cognition | somaesthesia, somesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation | the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations |
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| cognition | somaesthesia, somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense | the faculty of bodily perception |
| Meaning | The perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations. | |
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| Synonyms | somesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation | |
| Narrower | feeling | A physical sensation that you experience |
| pain, pain sensation, painful sensation | A somatic sensation of acute discomfort | |
| pressure, pressure sensation | The somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin | |
| prickling, tingle, tingling | A somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles | |
| temperature | The somatic sensation of cold or heat | |
| Broader | perception | The process of perceiving |
| Spanish | sensación, sensacion somática, sensación somática, somestesia | |
| Catalan | sensació, sensació somàtica | |
| Meaning | The faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs. | |
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| Synonyms | somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense | |
| Parts | proprioception | The ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts |
| touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses | The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands) | |
| Narrower | kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, feeling of movement | The perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc |
| tactual sensation, tactility, touch perception, skin perceptiveness | The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain | |
| Broader | interoception | sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body |
| Catalan | sistema somatosensorial | |
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