1. The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
   "only sight and skin senses enable us to locate objects in the space around us";
   - touch, sense of touch, touch modality, cutaneous senses

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]