physical contact

1. 1.

   the act of touching physically

   “her fingers came in contact with the light switch”

   Synonymscontact

   Broadertouch

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Questions about physical contact

What does physical contact mean?

physical contact means "the act of touching physically".

What is another word for physical contact?

Close synonyms include contact. 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 physical contact a common word?

physical contact 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.