tactual sensation

Questions about tactual sensation

What does tactual sensation mean?

tactual sensation means "the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for tactual sensation?

Close synonyms include touch, touch sensation, tactile sensation, feeling, tactility. 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 tactual sensation a common word?

tactual 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.