noun
1. the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin (Freq. 1)
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she likes the touch of silk on her skin
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the surface had a greasy feeling
• Syn: ↑touch, ↑touch sensation, ↑tactile sensation, ↑feeling
• Hypernyms: ↑perception
• Hyponyms: ↑creepiness, ↑cutaneous sensation, ↑haptic sensation, ↑skin sensation
2. the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain
• Syn: ↑tactility, ↑touch perception, ↑skin perceptiveness
• Hypernyms:
Useful english dictionary. 2012.