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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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 common element cannot possibly be supplied either by the data of visual sensation which the blind do not possess, or by the data of passive tactual sensation which the vident hardly ever employ.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Alexander Philip
The visual sense had here been rapidly replaced by the tactual and auditive senses.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
In the most intelligent anthropoid apes we find the tactual range and delicacy greatly augmented, new avenues of knowledge being thus opened to the animal.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
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 Alexander Philip
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