tactual

American  

[tak-choo-uhl] / ˈtæk tʃu əl /

adjective

1. of or relating to the sense of touch.

2. communicating or imparting the sensation of contact; arising from or due to touch.

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tactual British  

/ ˈtæktjʊəl /

adjective

1. caused by touch; causing a tactile sensation

2. of or relating to the tactile sense or the organs of touch

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Other Word Forms

• tactually adverb
• untactual adjective
• untactually adverb

Etymology

Origin of tactual

1635–45; < Latin tāctu ( s ) touch ( tact ) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

The visual sense had here been rapidly replaced by the tactual and auditive senses.

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Did the beard really exist, or was it only a case of tactual and visual sensations?

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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.

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In connexion with extension elaborate psycho-physical experiments have been devised,.e.g. with the object of comparing the accuracy of tactual and visual perception and discovering what are the least differences which each can observe.

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Of these five, vision is cognition of every kind of visual, tactual, and other sensible objects, though imperceptible, intercepted, or remote.

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