tactilely

1 7.6

By touching something to feel its shape or texture

adverb
/ˈtæktɪli/

: táctilmente

Question 3: If your child has some vision, did he or she initially explore the graphic visually or tactilely?
read braille tactilely
read tactilely

Examples

Because humans are multisensory, the arts are a way they communicate with each other—visually, aurally, kinetically, tactilely, and linguistically.

Academic text (1994)
The best use of such a product is that you tactilely know when your finger is on the shutter button.

Blog text (27)
Specifically, the subject must determine tactilely which of the four geometric patterns is least like the others.

Academic text (1997)
In general, the data confirmed that most children experienced little difficulty identifying the graphics tactilely.

Academic text (2009)
For example, one graphic tactilely depicted representations of a cloud, a rainbow, and the sun.

Academic text (2009)
These units have refreshable mechanical Braille dots that students can read tactilely and a Braille keyboard to enter data.

Academic text (2005)
Of the 29 children who were reported to have usable vision, 13 (45%) explored the graphics visually, and 15 children (52%) explored the graphics tactilely.

Academic text (2009)
In the tactile modality, the participants were blindfolded and were given 10 seconds to explore the matrices tactilely in order to memorize the target locations.

Academic text (2007)
For instance, Luella Elementary School, Locust Grove, GA, found a way to bring the community's equestrian interest into the library, offering resources about horses to students as well as a chance to tactilely interact with horses around them.

Academic text (2009)
In art class, students tactilely explored different textures to enhance their understanding of materials.

Synonyms

tactually

vstactilely

Specialized

1 9.9

By feeling things with your hands

is identical in meaning but differs only as an alternative word form

haptically

vstactilely

Specialized

9.9

In a way that uses the sense of touch

is identical in meaning but appears as another lexical form

Surface Forms

tactilely positive

Morphology

tactilely = tactile (transparent) = tactile + ly

The adverb is a straightforward formation from the adjective 'tactile' with the productive adverbial suffix '-ly', so its meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Tactilely comes from the root tact- meaning 'to touch', the same idea you see in tangible, which means 'able to be touched', and the everyday word 'touch'. So, to do something tactilely is to use your sense of touch, for example with your hands or fingertips.