tactual sensation

1. The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin (synset 105730374)
   "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"
   is a type of: perception - the process of perceiving
   subtypes:

   • creepiness - an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin
   • cutaneous sensation, haptic sensation, skin sensation - a sensation localized on the skin
   same as: feeling, tactile sensation, touch, touch sensation
2. The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain (synset 105729937)
   is a type of: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
   same as: skin perceptiveness, tactility, touch perception

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