Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun touch_modality

1 sense of touch modality

Sense 1
touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses -- (the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us")
       => somatosense -- (any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain)
       => exteroception -- (sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body)