Tactility

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.

1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: Phoenix, 1994, Part 8, p. 554, Maan loved swimming, not for the exercise but for the luxury, the tactility of it.