skin sensation

Questions about skin sensation

What does skin sensation mean?

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

What is another word for skin sensation?

Close synonyms include cutaneous sensation, haptic 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 skin sensation a common word?

skin 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.