Tactuality

Quick meaning: Tactuality is a noun meaning The quality of being tactual (relating to the sense of touch); that which concerns or is characterized by touch.

Meaning

The quality of being tactual (relating to the sense of touch); that which concerns or is characterized by touch.

Example Sentences

[…] what [Sigmund Freud] calls infant sexuality appears to be, as Lawrence Frank has observed, largely tactuality.

Each heard with the same ear what the other heard. For every sniffing of the one nose there were two identical smells, and there were two tactualities for every touch.

1858, William Robinson Pirie, An Inquiry into the Constitution, Powers, and Processes of the Human Mind, Aberdeen: A. Brown, Chapter 7, p. 398, […] we are just as conscious of a cause of vision as of a cause of tactual feeling, and it is not improbable that we have even a sense of tactuality, if we may so speak, in the secondary sensations.

Word Forms

• tactualities

Synonyms for tactuality

Depending on context, synonyms include tactility.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tactility, tactfulness, touchableness, touchability, hapticity, touchedness.

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