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cutaneous senses

cutaneous senses

6.7
Ways the skin feels touch, pressure, pain, and temperature
  • noun
  • /kjuːˈteɪniəs ˈsɛnsɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sentidos cutáneos
  • The cutaneous senses allow us to feel pressure, pain, and temperature on our skin.

Examples

  • Infants rely heavily on their cutaneous senses to explore the world around them.

  • Damage to the nervous system can impair the cutaneous senses.

  • The cutaneous senses are vital for feeling temperature changes.

  • She has heightened cutaneous senses that allow her to feel even the slightest touch.

  • The cutaneous senses allow us to detect sensations such as warmth and cold through our skin.

  • Infants rely heavily on their cutaneous senses to learn about different textures and temperatures.

  • Damage to the nervous system can lead to a loss of cutaneous senses, making it hard to feel pain.

Synonyms

touch
vscutaneous senses
360 1.0

A feeling when your skin meets something or someone

is about the enduring sensory faculty rather than single contact moments
sense of touch
vscutaneous senses
4 3.0

The ability to feel things through the skin

focuses on that faculty often emphasizing perception via the hands
tactility
vscutaneous senses
  • Specialized
1 8.6

To feel touch, pressure, heat, or pain through the skin

refers more to the sensory system itself rather than the quality of sensing
touch modality
vscutaneous senses
  • Specialized
7.0

The sense that lets you feel objects through physical contact

is the broader sensory label for perceiving stimuli through the skin
touch perception
vscutaneous senses
  • Specialized
4.5

Ability to feel pressure, heat, or pain on the skin

is a more general term for perceiving external contact, not only specific stimuli
skin senses
vscutaneous senses
4.4

Feelings you get through your skin, like touch and temperature

is narrower when emphasis is mainly on perceiving by the hands
tactus
vscutaneous senses
  • Archaic
9.9

A gentle touch used to feel the surface of something

covers the full sensory faculty, not just brief or light contact acts

How Sensitive

cutaneous senses
  • Specialized
6.7
numbness
19 4.6

Surface Forms

cutaneous senses plural
cutaneous sense singular

Morphology

cutaneous + sense

The meaning 'senses related to the skin / sense of touch' is directly and compositionally derived from 'cutaneous' (connected to the skin) combined with 'senses' (physical faculties). This adjective + noun pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Cutaneous senses comes from the word cutaneous, which means skin. It simply refers to the 'senses' or feelings we get through our skin, such as 'touch', 'pain', and 'temperature'.