tactuality
tactuality noun: the quality of being tactual (relating to the sense of touch); that which concerns or is characterized by touch.
Noun
tactuality (countable and uncountable, plural tactualities)
- The quality of being tactual (relating to the sense of touch); that which concerns or is characterized by touch.
- […] 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.1858, William Robinson Pirie, An Inquiry into the Constitution, Powers, and Processes of the Human Mind, Aberdeen: A. Brown, Chapter 7, p. 398
- 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.1949, Oets Kolk Bouwsma, “Descartes’ Evil Genius”, in Alexander Sesonske, Noel Fleming, editors, Meta-Meditations: Studies in Descartes, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, published 1965...
- Synonyms:
- tactility
Synonyms of tactuality
Forms of tactuality
| plural | tactualities |
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Origin of tactuality
From tactual + -ity.
Questions about tactuality
- What does tactuality mean?
- Tactuality means the quality of being tactual (relating to the sense of touch); that which concerns or is characterized by touch.
- What part of speech is tactuality?
- Tactuality is a noun.
- What is the plural of tactuality?
- The plural of tactuality is tactualities.
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