somatic sense

Questions about somatic sense

What does somatic sense mean?

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

What is another word for somatic sense?

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 somatic sense a common word?

somatic sense 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.