somaesthesia

1. The perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations (synset 105729127)
   "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes"
   is a type of: perception - the process of perceiving
   subtypes:

   • feeling - a physical sensation that you experience
   • prickling, tingle, tingling - a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings
   • pressure, pressure sensation - the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin
   • pain, pain sensation, painful sensation - a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
   • temperature - the somatic sensation of cold or heat
   same as: somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia
2. The faculty of bodily perception;
   Sensory systems associated with the body;
   Includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs (synset 105667701)
   is a type of: interoception - sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body
   subtypes:

   • skin perceptiveness, tactility, tactual sensation, touch perception - the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain
   • feeling of movement, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia - the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc
   has:

   • cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch, touch modality - the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
   • proprioception - the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts
   same as: somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis

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