Tactual

Quick meaning: Tactual is an adjective meaning Of, or relating to the sense of touch.

Meaning

Of, or relating to the sense of touch.

Example Sentences

[…] the later sovereigns of England have not been tactual healers, and the disease once honored with the name “king’s evil” now bears the humbler one of “scrofula” […]

‘Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry?’ enquired the Assistant Predestinator. ‘I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There’s a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it’s marvellous. Every hair of the bear reproduced. The most amazing tactual effects.’

[…] how doth Psyche heare or see That hath nor eyes nor eares? She sees more clear Then we that see but secundarily. We see at distance by a circular Diffusion of that spright of this great sphere Of th’Universe: Her sight is tactuall. The sunne and all the starres that do appear She feels them in herself […]

My world is built of touch-sensations, devoid of physical color and sound […]. Every object is associated in my mind with tactual qualities which, combined in countless ways, give me a sense of power, of beauty, or of incongruity: for with my hands I can feel the comic as well as the beautiful in the outward appearance of things.

Word Forms

• tactuall

Synonyms for tactual

Depending on context, synonyms include tactile, tangible, haptic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tactile, haptic, tangible, tactive, tactuall, visuotactile.

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