skin senses

Questions about skin senses

What does skin senses mean?

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

What is another word for skin senses?

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

skin senses 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.