tactility
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8.6
- noun
- /tækˈtɪlɪti/
- Specialized
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tactilidad
- The eye seeks the tactility of textures and reliefs.
Eyes, ears, tactility, taste, kinesthetic, you know, all the ways that we exist in the world.
- Eyes, ears, tactility, taste, kinesthetic, you know, all the ways that we exist in the world.
Examples
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Mies's design career displays an evolution from early explorations of the tactility of materials to later interests in framing forms that encourage a hands-off visual apprehension.
Fiction book (1992) -
Eyes, ears, tactility, taste, kinesthetic, you know, all the ways that we exist in the world.
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Environmental sounds and unlimited tactility could provide a complete multi-sensory experience.
Academic text (1997) -
Webvertising lacks the "tactility" of traditional media; this is even older news.
Blog text (6) -
The viewer's gaze seeks the tactility of the icon's textures.
Academic text (2006) -
As with the Western representations of the Tolek, much attention is given to the pattern of its outer walls; however, these bas-relief multicolored ovals give the houses a tactility and sumptuousness lacking in Western descriptions and images.
Academic text (2001) -
The tactility of the fabric makes it a joy to wear.
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Children explore the world through tactility, as they often touch and feel different objects.
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Artists often focus on tactility to enhance the sensory experience of their sculptures.
Synonyms
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4.2
The body's ability to feel things like touch or light
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6.6
Ability to feel physical things like touch or pain
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3.0
The ability to feel things through the skin
Ability to feel pressure, heat, or pain on the skin
Ways the skin feels touch, pressure, pain, and temperature
Feelings you get through your skin, like touch and temperature
The sense that lets you feel objects through physical contact
The sense of feeling touch, temperature, pain, and body position
The ability to feel touch, pain, temperature, body position, and internal organs
Ability to feel or notice very small physical changes
How Sensitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tactility comes from the root tact-, which means 'touch' and you can see it in words like contact and tactile. So, tactility is the ability to feel things by touch, for example pressure, heat, or pain on the skin.