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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In the Primates the evolution of intellect and the evolution of tactual appendages go hand in hand.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
Pile note on note the infinite music that flows increasingly to your soul from the tactual sonorities of a thousand branches and tumbling waters.
From The World I Live In by Helen Keller
The same is true of sounds, of tactual sensations, of every other sensible obstacle to pure activity.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Alexander Philip
Every quality it possesses is represented by a corresponding visual, auditory, tactual or other sensation.
From Applied Psychology: Driving Power of Thought Being the Third in a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
There are tactual vibrations which do not belong to skin-touch.
From The World I Live In by Helen Keller
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