touch modality

Questions about touch modality

What does touch modality mean?

touch modality means "the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)".

What is another word for touch modality?

Close synonyms include touch, sense of touch, skin senses, cutaneous senses. 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 touch modality a common word?

touch modality 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.