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English *noun*: somesthesis
1.	somesthesis (cognition) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
		Synonyms	somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia
		Broader (hypernym)	interoception
		Narrower (hyponym)	feeling of movement, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia, skin perceptiveness, tactility, tactual sensation, touch perception
		Part holonym	cutaneous senses, proprioception, sense of touch, skin senses, touch, touch modality

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