tactileadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈtaktʌɪl/,

/ˈtaktᵻl/, U.S.

/ˈtækt(ə)l/,

/ˈtækˌtaɪl/

Etymology: < Latin tactilis tangible, < tact-, participial stem of tangĕre to touch; compare French tactile.

1. Perceptible to the touch; tangible.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > quality of being tangible > [adjective]

touchablec1384

treatablec1384

palpable1395

gropable14..

maniable1483

tangible1589

tactable1611

tactile1615

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 717 Beside the Sapour it hath also many Tangible or Tactile qualities.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) The chief Tactile Qualities are Heat, Cold, Driness, Moistness, and Hardness.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 789 Certain visible and tactile signs.

a. Of or pertaining to touch; characterized or influenced by, or relating to the sense of touch. Hence absol. as n., one for whom the sense of touch predominates over the other senses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [adjective]

tactic1625

tactive1634

tactual1642

tactilea1706

tangent1802

haptic1860

the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [noun] > one who perceives by touch > predominantly

tactile1917

a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. i. 34 The tactile, auditory, and olfactory senses.

1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) i. ii. 155 That high tactile sensibility distinguishing the tip of the tongue.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. i. §10 11 Our own Tactile Sense (under which general head may be combined the Sense of Touch, the Sense of Muscular Exertion, and the Mental Sense of Effort).

1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. iii. iv. 412 The tactile sensation is..a symbol to us of some external event.

1892 W. James Text-bk. Psychol. xix. 308 All blind persons must belong to the ‘tactile’ and ‘motile’ types of the French authors.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 299 Tactile anæsthesia over..the whole of the left side.

1917 J. Adams Student's Guide 23 Some prefer to learn through the eye, others like to learn through the ear, still others through the sense of touch. The first kind are called visuals, the second audiles, the third tactiles.

1956 H. Read Art of Sculpture iv. 71 Thus there are visual types, tactile types, and audile types.

1993 New Scientist 25 Sept. 27/2 Virtual reality datagloves still lack the tactile feedback needed by a surgeon.

b. Of organs: Endowed with the sense of touch. tactile papilla n. Anatomy a dermal papilla containing a tactile sensory receptor.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [adjective] > having sense of touch (of organs)

tactile1768

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) I. 388 The gustatory papillæ of the tongue and tactile papillæ of the fingers.

1872 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) vii. 172 The external ears of the common mouse..no doubt serve as tactile organs.

1873 A. Flint Nerv. Syst. i. 39 The name tactile corpuscles implies that these bodies are connected with the sense of touch.

c. Art. tactile value n. (B. Berenson's term for) the illusion of tangibility which a painter can create with regard to the figures and objects he represents; the attribute or impression of a tangible quality. Also transferred.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > relief and texture > [noun] > appearance or representation of texture

texture1845

texturing1882

tactile value1896

1896 B. Berenson Florentine Painters of Renaissance ii. 4 Every time our eyes recognise reality we are..giving tactile values to retinal impressions.

1907 B. Berenson N. Ital. Painters of Renaissance 146 In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal..sources of life-enhancement are tactile values, movement, and space composition, by which I mean ideated sensation.

1908 E. M. Forster Room with View ii. 22 The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy.

1919 A. N. Whitehead Enq. Princ. Nat. Knowl. 88 This property of ‘conveying’ an object..is already well~known in the theory of art-criticism, as is evidenced in such phrases as ‘tactile-values’.

1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art vii. 146 Mr. Berenson..taught his pupils..to look in paintings for what he called ‘tactile values’.

1962 Listener 15 Nov. 832/1 It [sc. a play] is remarkable because of what one might call, after Berenson, its tactile values.

1970 Oxf. Compan. Art 1120/1 Berenson was notoriously incapable of appreciating those schools of modern—and ancient—art which subordinate tactile values to other qualities of pictorial design.

d. In painting and sculpture: (see quot. 1907).

ΚΠ

1907 E. Strong Rom. Sculpt. 66 It is the tactile quality of the subject, rather than its illusionist possibilities, which has attracted the artist. Note. I use this word in the sense given to it by Riegl who uses taktisch (tactilis) = ‘stofflich’ to express material dimension as distinct from the illusion of dimension conveyed by æsthetic means.

Compounds

tactile-visual adj.

ΚΠ

1969 New Scientist 27 Mar. 678/1 A tactile-visual system..should provide valuable information concerning such psychological questions as the nature of sensory processing.

1978 Verbatim May 16/1 My point is that the oral-aural mode is intricately combined with the tactile-visual mode.

Derivatives

ˈtactilely adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [adverb]

tactually1855

haptically1903

tactilely1953

1953 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Female xiv. 578 Some areas which are tactilely sensitive..are of no especial importance as sources of erotic response.

1977 Verbatim Feb. 8/1 It takes some talent and not much money to design and manufacture a book artistically, one that provides as much aestheic pleasure visually and tactilely as it does in its reading.

Draft additions December 2003

Of a person: given to touching others, esp. as a spontaneous expression of affection or sympathy.

ΚΠ

1971 A. Montagu Touching v. 169 Children who are highly tactile but have no accompanying sexual interest in others until further development has occurred.

1982 People Weekly 24 May 41 Tom turned on the lights, introduced himself and took her in his arms. He's a very tactile person. I thought: at last, a human being.

1990 ‘M. Caine’ Coward's Chron. (BNC) 91 Dad was a gruff bear of a Yorkshire man, warm but not tactile, his rare hugs self-conscious, one-armed and brief.

1997 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 24 June 24/6 I'm as tactile with men as I am with women.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tactile
释义	tactileadj.n. Brit. /ˈtaktʌɪl/, /ˈtaktᵻl/, U.S. /ˈtækt(ə)l/, /ˈtækˌtaɪl/ Etymology: < Latin tactilis tangible, < tact-, participial stem of tangĕre to touch; compare French tactile. 1. Perceptible to the touch; tangible. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > quality of being tangible > [adjective] touchablec1384 treatablec1384 palpable1395 gropable14.. maniable1483 tangible1589 tactable1611 tactile1615 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 717 Beside the Sapour it hath also many Tangible or Tactile qualities. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) The chief Tactile Qualities are Heat, Cold, Driness, Moistness, and Hardness. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 789 Certain visible and tactile signs. 2. a. Of or pertaining to touch; characterized or influenced by, or relating to the sense of touch. Hence absol. as n., one for whom the sense of touch predominates over the other senses. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [adjective] tactic1625 tactive1634 tactual1642 tactilea1706 tangent1802 haptic1860 the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [noun] > one who perceives by touch > predominantly tactile1917 a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. i. 34 The tactile, auditory, and olfactory senses. 1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) i. ii. 155 That high tactile sensibility distinguishing the tip of the tongue. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. i. §10 11 Our own Tactile Sense (under which general head may be combined the Sense of Touch, the Sense of Muscular Exertion, and the Mental Sense of Effort). 1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. iii. iv. 412 The tactile sensation is..a symbol to us of some external event. 1892 W. James Text-bk. Psychol. xix. 308 All blind persons must belong to the ‘tactile’ and ‘motile’ types of the French authors. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 299 Tactile anæsthesia over..the whole of the left side. 1917 J. Adams Student's Guide 23 Some prefer to learn through the eye, others like to learn through the ear, still others through the sense of touch. The first kind are called visuals, the second audiles, the third tactiles. 1956 H. Read Art of Sculpture iv. 71 Thus there are visual types, tactile types, and audile types. 1993 New Scientist 25 Sept. 27/2 Virtual reality datagloves still lack the tactile feedback needed by a surgeon. b. Of organs: Endowed with the sense of touch. tactile papilla n. Anatomy a dermal papilla containing a tactile sensory receptor. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [adjective] > having sense of touch (of organs) tactile1768 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) I. 388 The gustatory papillæ of the tongue and tactile papillæ of the fingers. 1872 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) vii. 172 The external ears of the common mouse..no doubt serve as tactile organs. 1873 A. Flint Nerv. Syst. i. 39 The name tactile corpuscles implies that these bodies are connected with the sense of touch. c. Art. tactile value n. (B. Berenson's term for) the illusion of tangibility which a painter can create with regard to the figures and objects he represents; the attribute or impression of a tangible quality. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > relief and texture > [noun] > appearance or representation of texture texture1845 texturing1882 tactile value1896 1896 B. Berenson Florentine Painters of Renaissance ii. 4 Every time our eyes recognise reality we are..giving tactile values to retinal impressions. 1907 B. Berenson N. Ital. Painters of Renaissance 146 In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal..sources of life-enhancement are tactile values, movement, and space composition, by which I mean ideated sensation. 1908 E. M. Forster Room with View ii. 22 The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy. 1919 A. N. Whitehead Enq. Princ. Nat. Knowl. 88 This property of ‘conveying’ an object..is already well~known in the theory of art-criticism, as is evidenced in such phrases as ‘tactile-values’. 1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art vii. 146 Mr. Berenson..taught his pupils..to look in paintings for what he called ‘tactile values’. 1962 Listener 15 Nov. 832/1 It [sc. a play] is remarkable because of what one might call, after Berenson, its tactile values. 1970 Oxf. Compan. Art 1120/1 Berenson was notoriously incapable of appreciating those schools of modern—and ancient—art which subordinate tactile values to other qualities of pictorial design. d. In painting and sculpture: (see quot. 1907). ΚΠ 1907 E. Strong Rom. Sculpt. 66 It is the tactile quality of the subject, rather than its illusionist possibilities, which has attracted the artist. Note. I use this word in the sense given to it by Riegl who uses taktisch (tactilis) = ‘stofflich’ to express material dimension as distinct from the illusion of dimension conveyed by æsthetic means. Compounds tactile-visual adj. ΚΠ 1969 New Scientist 27 Mar. 678/1 A tactile-visual system..should provide valuable information concerning such psychological questions as the nature of sensory processing. 1978 Verbatim May 16/1 My point is that the oral-aural mode is intricately combined with the tactile-visual mode. Derivatives ˈtactilely adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [adverb] tactually1855 haptically1903 tactilely1953 1953 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Female xiv. 578 Some areas which are tactilely sensitive..are of no especial importance as sources of erotic response. 1977 Verbatim Feb. 8/1 It takes some talent and not much money to design and manufacture a book artistically, one that provides as much aestheic pleasure visually and tactilely as it does in its reading. Draft additions December 2003 Of a person: given to touching others, esp. as a spontaneous expression of affection or sympathy. ΚΠ 1971 A. Montagu Touching v. 169 Children who are highly tactile but have no accompanying sexual interest in others until further development has occurred. 1982 People Weekly 24 May 41 Tom turned on the lights, introduced himself and took her in his arms. He's a very tactile person. I thought: at last, a human being. 1990 ‘M. Caine’ Coward's Chron. (BNC) 91 Dad was a gruff bear of a Yorkshire man, warm but not tactile, his rare hugs self-conscious, one-armed and brief. 1997 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 24 June 24/6 I'm as tactile with men as I am with women. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1615
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