tactualadj.
/ˈtaktjuːəl/ Of or pertaining to touch; of the nature of or due to touch.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [adjective]
tactic1625
tactive1634
tactual1642
tactilea1706
tangent1802
haptic1860
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. I4 Her sight is tactuall. The sunne and all the starres that do appear She feels them in herself.
1678 R. Cudworth tr. Plotinus in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 549 A kind of Tactual Union..with the Centre of the Universe.
1833 T. Carlyle Count Cagliostro in Fraser's Mag. July 21/1 Thy existence is wholly an Illusion and optical and tactual Phantasm.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. ix. 185 In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body.
Derivatives
tactuˈality n. tactual quality.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > quality of being tangible > [noun]
palpability1601
touchableness1620
tactility1660
tangibility1665
touch1684
tangibleness1727
tactuality1858
1858 W. R. Pirie Inq. Human Mind vii. 398 It is not improbable that we have even a sense of tactuality, if we may so speak, in the secondary sensations.
ˈtactually adv. in a tactual manner or way.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [adverb]
tactually1855
haptically1903
tactilely1953
1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. iii. x. 426 When, as in higher grades of creatures, a muscular system and concomitant sense are developed..an immense variety of textures can be known tactually.
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