somataesthesis

Other forms of somataesthesis

plural

somataesthesises·

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 somataesthesis

What does somataesthesis mean?

somataesthesis means "the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs".

How many syllables are in somataesthesis?

somataesthesis has 6 syllables: so-ma-ta-es-the-sis. The stress falls on "es".

What is another word for somataesthesis?

Close synonyms include somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia. 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 somataesthesis a common word?

somataesthesis 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.