Handfeel

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The way that something feels when touched by or held in the hand.

    "In a laboratory study, the same fabrics listed in Table 4.3 were evaluated for handfeel comfort by 40 consumers who had no formal training in textiles. The consumers were instructed that they could 'hold, touch, feel or squeeze the material in any manner'."

Example

More examples

"In a laboratory study, the same fabrics listed in Table 4.3 were evaluated for handfeel comfort by 40 consumers who had no formal training in textiles. The consumers were instructed that they could 'hold, touch, feel or squeeze the material in any manner'."

Etymology

From hand + feel.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.