cutaneous sensation

1. 1.

   a sensation localized on the skin

   Synonymshaptic sensationskin sensation

   Broadertouch

   Narrowertickleitchtopognosiaurtication

Questions about cutaneous sensation

What does cutaneous sensation mean?

cutaneous sensation means "a sensation localized on the skin".

What is another word for cutaneous sensation?

Close synonyms include haptic sensation, skin sensation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cutaneous sensation a common word?

cutaneous sensation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.