somaesthesia

Other forms of somaesthesia

plural

somaesthesias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about somaesthesia

What does somaesthesia mean?

somaesthesia means "the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in somaesthesia?

somaesthesia has 6 syllables: so-ma-es-the-si-a. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for somaesthesia?

Close synonyms include somesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia, somesthesis. 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 somaesthesia a common word?

somaesthesia 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.