touch modality

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noun

the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us
• Syn:
touch, sense of touch, skin senses, cutaneous senses
• Derivationally related forms:
touch (for: touch)
• Hypernyms:
somatosense, exteroception
• Part Holonyms:
somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia,
somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense