Noun: somatesthesia
- The faculty of bodily perception, including skin senses, proprioception, and internal organ sensations
"somatesthesia provides crucial information about our physical state";
- somesthesia [N. Amer], somesthesis [N. Amer], somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somaesthesis [Cdn], somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense
- The perception of tactual, proprioceptive or gut sensations
"he relied on somatesthesia to warn him of pressure changes";
- somesthesia [N. Amer], somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somatic sensation
Type of: interoception, perception