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
Other Word Forms
- tactually adverb
- untactual adjective
- untactually adverb
Etymology
Origin of tactual
Vocabulary lists containing tactual
Example Sentences
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Instance the musician, who, by practice, is enabled to fuse a multitude of arrangements, auditory, tactual, and muscular, into a process of automatic manipulation.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
The elephant is the most sagacious of quadrupeds — its tactual range and skill, and the consequent multiplication of experiences, which it owes to its wonderfully adaptable trunk, being the basis of its sagacity.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
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 Hilton, Warren
There are tactual vibrations which do not belong to skin-touch.
From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen
He pointed out that, as above noted, in the lowest organisms sensation is a general thing diffused throughout the body, a kind of general tactual sense.
From Embryology The Beginnings of Life by Leighton, Gerald R.
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