1. The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
   - touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality

Type of: exteroception, somatosense

Part of: somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somaesthesis [Cdn], somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia [N. Amer], somesthesis [N. Amer]

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