English noun: touch perception | |||
1. | touch perception (cognition) the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain | ||
Synonyms | skin perceptiveness, tactility, tactual sensation | ||
Broader (hypernym) | somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis | ||