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English noun: touch modality

1. touch modality (cognition) the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)


SamplesOnly sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us.


Synonymscutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch


Broader (hypernym)exteroception, somatosense


Part meronymsomaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis









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