tactual
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the sense of touch.
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communicating or imparting the sensation of contact; arising from or due to touch.
adjective
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caused by touch; causing a tactile sensation
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of or relating to the tactile sense or the organs of touch
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I felt tactual jars like the stamp of a foot, the opening of a window or its closing, the slam of a door.
From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen
Mach indeed claims to distinguish physiological Space, geometrical Space, visual Space, tactual Space as all different and yet apparently harmoniously blended in our Experience.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander
Diderot attempts to solve the problem by maintaining that tactual sensations occupy an extended space which the blind in thought can add to or contract, and in this way equip himself with spatial conceptions.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander
Did the beard really exist, or was it only a case of tactual and visual sensations?
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
The vident apprehends its various features simultaneously and at once; the blind, by successive tactual palpations.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander
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