English noun: somatesthesia |
1. | somatesthesia (cognition) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations |
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| Samples | He relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes.
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| Synonyms | somaesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia |
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| Broader (hypernym) | perception |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | feeling, pain, pain sensation, painful sensation, pressure, pressure sensation, prickling, temperature, tingle, tingling |
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2. | somatesthesia (cognition) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs |
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| Synonyms | somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| Broader (hypernym) | interoception |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | feeling of movement, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia, skin perceptiveness, tactility, tactual sensation, touch perception |
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| Part holonym | cutaneous senses, proprioception, sense of touch, skin senses, touch, touch modality |
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