noun
the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
• Syn:
↑somesthesia, ↑somesthesis, ↑somaesthesia, ↑somaesthesis, ↑somatesthesia, ↑somataesthesis, ↑somatosensory system, ↑somatic sensory system
• 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
Useful english dictionary. 2012.