somatesthesia

Other forms of somatesthesia

plural

somatesthesias·

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 somatesthesia

What does somatesthesia mean?

somatesthesia 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 somatesthesia?

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

What is another word for somatesthesia?

Close synonyms include somesthesia, somaesthesia, 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 somatesthesia a common word?

somatesthesia 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.