haptic sensation

Questions about haptic sensation

What does haptic sensation mean?

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

What is another word for haptic sensation?

Close synonyms include cutaneous 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 haptic sensation a common word?

haptic 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.