sense of touch

Questions about sense of touch

What is another word for sense of touch?

It depends which sense of touch you mean. In the sense “the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)”, the synonyms are touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of sense of touch?

WordNet records no antonym for sense of touch. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for sense of touch come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of sense of touch

• Full entry for sense of touchAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sense of touchWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.