sense of touch
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- noun
- /sɛns əv tʌtʃ/
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sentido del tacto
- I just use my nose, eyes, and sense of touch to determine if food is safe.
- touch technology
So there's just that, that whole extra level of the sense of touch and what it can bring to to the occasion.
- So there's just that, that whole extra level of the sense of touch and what it can bring to to the occasion.
- You start seeing directions that were previously inaccessible to your sensory system, your eyes, your your sense of touch, taste, smell.
Examples
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We have found that many clients who have a reduced sense of touch are nevertheless able to feel subtle changes in the angle of their wrist.
Academic text (2010) -
In individuals with visual impairments, the sense of touch is substituted for the sense of vision as a reading medium.
Academic text (2010) -
I have no sense of touch.
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As we look at each of these technologies, a sense of touch plays a role in how we use and control them.
Academic text (2008) -
By this time, they could not see each other, and all their operations were conducted by the sense of touch alone.
Fiction book (2000) -
In addition to developing visual self-awareness skills, students can learn to use their sense of touch.
Academic text (2006) -
In individuals who are visually impaired, the sense of touch has taken over the function of vision in the reading process.
Academic text (2010) -
Haptic technology lends the sense of touch to virtual reality.
Academic text (2003) -
Glands on our palms and soles keep those surfaces moist, thereby improving our grip and our sense of touch.
Academic text (1991) -
I have no sense of touch.
Synonyms
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A feeling when your skin meets something or someone
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To feel touch, pressure, heat, or pain through the skin
The sense that lets you feel objects through physical contact
Ways the skin feels touch, pressure, pain, and temperature
Feelings you get through your skin, like touch and temperature
Ability to feel pressure, heat, or pain on the skin
The ability to feel touch, pain, temperature, body position, and internal organs
Antonyms
How Sensitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'sense' (a faculty) combined with 'touch' (sensation from skin contact) yields the faculty for perceiving via touch. The 'sense of X' construction is a regular, cross-linguistically common noun phrase, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Sense of touch comes from the simple image of skin and hands 'feeling' objects, like a baby exploring the world with its fingers. The word sense means a way to know and touch is the act of feeling, so the phrase means the 'ability' to notice things by touching.