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touch modality
noun
the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
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only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us

Syn: ↑touch, ↑sense of touch, ↑skin senses, ↑cutaneous senses
Derivationally related forms: ↑touch (for: ↑touch)
Hypernyms: ↑somatosense, ↑exteroception
Part Holonyms:
somesthesia, ↑somesthesis, ↑somaesthesia, ↑somaesthesis, ↑somatesthesia, ↑somataesthesis, ↑somatosensory system, ↑somatic sensory system, ↑somatic sense

Useful english dictionary. 2012.