cutaneous senses

Questions about cutaneous senses

What does cutaneous senses mean?

cutaneous senses means "the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)".

What is another word for cutaneous senses?

Close synonyms include touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality. 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 senses a common word?

cutaneous senses 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.