Tactility

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being tactile (relating to or able to be perceived by the sense of touch). countable, uncountable

    "Each time they lay down there together, as if she obeyed a voice that came out of the quilt telling her to put the light out, she would extinguish the candle flame between her finger-tips. All around them, the tactility of the dark."

  2. 2
    the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain wordnet
  3. 3
    The ability to feel pressure or pain through touch. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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feelskin perceptivenesstactitiontactual sensationtactual sensationtactuality

Example

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"Each time they lay down there together, as if she obeyed a voice that came out of the quilt telling her to put the light out, she would extinguish the candle flame between her finger-tips. All around them, the tactility of the dark."

Etymology

From tactile + -ity.

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