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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But there we have to do principally with tactual perception, since the reader touches the hand of the subject and is guided by its tremor.
From Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Pfungst, Oskar
Light, sound and tactual vibrations press upon you from every side.
From Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Hilton, Warren
He finds no difficulty in analyzing it into color sensations and tactual sensations; and yet he is aware of so much more in it.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
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 Philip, Alexander
The tactual succession from the great Bishop of New Zealand has therefore passed to the present episcopate only through two of the missionaries who were at work in the country before his arrival.
From A History of the English Church in New Zealand by Purchas, H. T. (Henry Thomas)
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