tactility

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

caress contact communication feel distinction feeling handling taste perception touch crash blow collision manipulation embrace

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Antonyms

knowledge loss question avoid failure interpretation

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Hypernyms

somatesthesia somaesthesis somataesthesis somatic sense somatic sensory system somatosensory system

Examples

The celebrated earthy tactility of Rabelais is a massive backwash of receding manuscript culture. Marshall McLuhan

Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant. Marshall McLuhan

Tactility is space of the interval. Marshall McLuhan

The pre-atomist multisensory void was an animate, pulsating, and moving vibrant interval, neither container nor contained, acoustic space penetrated by tactility. Marshall McLuhan

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines. Twyla Tharp

Close letter words and terms

tactile walking surface indicator tactilely tactilise tactilize tactilogram tactilometric