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somaesthesia

noun

1. the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations

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he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes

• Syn: ↑somesthesia, ↑somatesthesia, ↑somatic sensation

• Hypernyms: ↑perception

• Hyponyms:

↑feeling, ↑prickling, ↑tingle, ↑tingling, ↑pressure, ↑pressure sensation, ↑pain, ↑pain sensation, ↑painful sensation, ↑temperature

2. the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs

• Syn:

↑somesthesia, ↑somesthesis, ↑somaesthesis, ↑somatesthesia, ↑somataesthesis, ↑somatosensory system, ↑somatic sensory system, ↑somatic sense

• Hypernyms: ↑interoception

• Hyponyms:

↑tactual sensation, ↑tactility, ↑touch perception, ↑skin perceptiveness, ↑kinesthesia, ↑kinaesthesia, ↑feeling of movement

• Part Meronyms: ↑touch, ↑sense of touch, ↑skin senses, ↑touch modality, ↑cutaneous senses, ↑proprioception

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or somaesthesis

variant of somesthesia

Useful english dictionary. 2012.