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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   awareness of one's own body uncountable
2. 2
   the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs wordnet
3. 3
   the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

somaesthesiasomaesthesissomataesthesissomatic sensationsomatic sensesomatic sensory system

Etymology

From somato- + -esthesia.

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