somatic sensation
- noun
- /səˈmætɪk ˌsɛnˈseɪʃən/
- Specialized
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sensación somática
- When she touched the hot stove, the somatic sensation made her quickly pull her hand away.
Examples
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During the meditation session, participants were encouraged to focus on their somatic sensations to enhance their mindfulness.
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Embodied awareness involves including our bodily-based or somatic sensations in awareness as one acts in and makes sense of the world.
Academic text (2000) -
The athlete relied on somatic sensations to adjust his posture during the challenging yoga poses.
Synonyms
To feel touch, know where your body parts are, and notice feelings inside your body
The ability to feel touch, pain, temperature, body position, and internal organs
The sense of feeling touch, temperature, pain, and body position
The ability to feel touch, body position, and feelings inside the body
A body sense that lets you feel touch, pressure, temperature, pain, and body position
A basic sense that lets you feel pain and temperature
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'perception of bodily sensations' is directly and transparently derived from 'somatic' (bodily) + 'sensation' (physical feeling). This adjective+noun composition is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Somatic sensation comes from words meaning 'body' (somatic) and 'feeling' (sensation), so it literally means a feeling in the body. That's why it is used to talk about touch, body position, or internal feelings like pain.