touch perception

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   the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain

   Synonymstactual sensationtactilityskin perceptiveness

   Broadersomesthesia

Questions about touch perception

What does touch perception mean?

touch perception means "the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain".

What is another word for touch perception?

Close synonyms include tactual sensation, tactility, skin perceptiveness. 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 perception a common word?

touch perception 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.