Noun: somatic sense
- The faculty of bodily perception, including skin senses, proprioception, and internal organ sensations
"somatic sense provides crucial information about our physical state";
- somesthesia [N. Amer], somesthesis [N. Amer], somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somaesthesis [Cdn], somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system
Derived forms: somatic senses
Type of: interoception
Encyclopedia: Somatic sense