"somataesthesis" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

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, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis