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tactility

American  
[tak-ti-li-tee] / takˈtɪ lɪ ti /

noun

  1. the quality, state, or degree of being tactile.

  2. Medicine/Medical. the ability to perceive with the sense of touch.


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Aesthetically, the nostalgia obsession will continue, with indicators of tactility, texture and imperfection becoming increasingly significant.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 2025

At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 30, 2025

You can feel this as well in the tactility of Elliot’s stop-motion clay characters.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 25, 2024

The original “Beetlejuice” reinforced the tactility of Burton's movie magic more than it emphasized the brilliance of its casting.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2024

In adaptation to the darkness, in which there is only luminescence that eyes could use, there is a great development of tactility.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson

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