sense of touch

Questions about sense of touch

What does sense of touch mean?

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

What is another word for sense of touch?

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

sense of touch is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.