somatosensory

1. 1.

   of or relating to the somatosenses

Questions about somatosensory

What does somatosensory mean?

somatosensory means "of or relating to the somatosenses".

How many syllables are in somatosensory?

somatosensory has 6 syllables and divides as so-ma-to-sen-so-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is somatosensory a common word?

somatosensory 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.