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Definition of Tactility
1. Noun. The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain.
Generic synonyms: Somaesthesia, Somaesthesis, Somataesthesis, Somatesthesia, Somatic Sense, Somatic Sensory System, Somatosensory System, Somesthesia, Somesthesis
Derivative terms: Tactile, Tactile
Definition of Tactility
1. n. The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.
Definition of Tactility
1. Noun. The condition of being tactile ¹
2. Noun. The ability to feel pressure or pain through touch ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tactility
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tactility
Literary usage of Tactility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on Art by Max Weber (1916)
"This leads to what I might call intimacy of tactility — largely a plastic ...
It is this spiritual tactility that brings us into closest touch and great- ..."
2. Miscellaneous Essays by Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Edward Byles Cowell (1873)
"colour, savour, odour, and tactility; to aqueous, colour, savour, and tactility;
to igneous, both colour and tactility; to aerial, tactility only.1 [393] ..."
3. Miscellaneous Essays by Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Thomas Edward Colebrooke, Edward Byles Cowell (1873)
"colour, savour, odour, and tactility; to aqueous, colour, savour, and tactility ;
to igneous, both colour and tactility ; to aerial, tactility only.1 [393] ..."
4. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies (1827)
"... odour, and tactility; to aqueous, colour, savour, and tactility; to igneous,
both colour and tactility ; to aerial, tactility only. ..."
5. Essays on the Religion and Philosophy of the Hindus by Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1858)
"SECT OF BUDDHA. ous, colour, savour, and tactility; to igneous, both colour and
tactility; to aerial, tactility only. ..."
6. Essays on the Religion and Philosophy of the Hindus by Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1858)
"ous, colour, savour, and tactility; to igneous, both colour and tactility; to
aerial, tactility only. ..."
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