tactilities

Noun

tactility (countable and uncountable, plural tactilities)

1. The condition of being tactile (relating to or able to be perceived by the sense of touch).
   • Each time they lay down there together, as if she obeyed a voice that came out of the quilt telling her to put the light out, she would extinguish the candle flame between her finger-tips. All around them, the tactility of the dark.1988, Angela Carter, “John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore”, in Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories, New York: H. Holt, page 337

   Synonyms:

   tactuality

2. The ability to feel pressure or pain through touch.