pressure sensation

1. 1.

   the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin

   “the sensitivity of his skin to pressure and temperature was normal”

   Synonymspressure

   Broadersomesthesia

Questions about pressure sensation

What does pressure sensation mean?

pressure sensation means "the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin".

What is another word for pressure sensation?

Close synonyms include pressure. 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 pressure sensation a common word?

pressure 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.