SKIN PERCEPTIVENESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain

Synonyms:

skin perceptiveness; tactility; tactual sensation; touch perception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("skin perceptiveness" is a kind of...):

somaesthesia; somaesthesis; somataesthesis; somatesthesia; somatic sense; somatic sensory system; somatosensory system; somesthesia; somesthesis (the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs)

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