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

Derived forms: somesthesias

Type of: interoception, perception