touch sensation

1. 1.

   the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin

   “she likes the touch of silk on her skin”

   “the surface had a greasy feeling”

   Synonymstouchtactual sensationtactile sensationfeeling

   Broaderperception

   Narrowercreepinesscutaneous sensation

Questions about touch sensation

What does touch sensation mean?

touch sensation means "the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin".

What is another word for touch sensation?

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

touch 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.