Noun: sense of touch
- The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
"only sight and sense of touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us";
- touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
Derived forms: senses of touch
Type of: exteroception, somatosense
Part of: somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somaesthesis [Cdn], somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia [N. Amer], somesthesis [N. Amer]
Encyclopedia: Sense of touch