somatic sensation

Questions about somatic sensation

What does somatic sensation mean?

somatic sensation means "the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations".

What is another word for somatic sensation?

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

somatic 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.