somaesthesis

1. 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: somaesthesia, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis

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