somesthesia

Other forms of somesthesia

plural

somesthesias·

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 somesthesia

What does somesthesia mean?

somesthesia 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 somesthesia?

somesthesia has 5 syllables: so-mes-the-si-a. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for somesthesia?

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

somesthesia 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.