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tactuality

tactuality

9.9
How something feels when you touch it
  • noun
  • /tækˈtʃuːəlɪti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : tactilidad
  • The artist emphasized the tactuality of his work by inviting viewers to touch the textured surfaces.
  • Tactuality Test

Examples

  • In the tactile museum, visitors experience the tactuality of various sculptures by touching them directly.

  • Children learn about tactuality when they explore different fabrics and materials with their hands.

  • The Tactuality Test involves a two-step process.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The culture-specific approach to testing for artistic talent in black students suggested here is "Tactuality."

    Academic text (1991)

  • Developing the Tactuality Concept

    Academic text (1991)

  • The Tactuality Test

    Academic text (1991)

  • Tactuality Test Description

    Academic text (1991)

  • Tactuality was constructed by finding characteristics common to black cultural strengths and the artistically talented.

    Academic text (1991)

  • A Tactuality Test (Tac Test) was devised based on these four characteristics.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The four characteristics of Tactuality identified were: emotional intensity, flexibility and open-endedness, holistic perception, and tactile sensitivity.

    Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

feel
vstactuality
46 1.8

How something is to the touch

refers to the general quality rather than the felt sensation
tactility
vstactuality
  • Specialized
1 8.6

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

concerns the object's touch quality rather than the perceiver's ability
tangibility
vstactuality
1 6.1

How easily something can be touched

is the same meaning but uses a more common noun form
tangibleness
vstactuality
7.5

The state of being able to be touched or felt

is the same meaning but expressed in a different noun form
palpability
vstactuality
8.1

How easy something is to feel by touch

is about being perceptible without stressing ease
tactile property
vstactuality
6.1

A quality you can feel when you touch something, like softness or temperature

is the broader state of being perceptible by touch rather than a trait

How Tactile

tactuality
  • Specialized
9.9
tactility
  • Specialized
1 8.6

Surface Forms

tactuality singular
tactualities plural

Morphology

tactuality = tactual (semi-transparent) = tact + ual + ity

Forming a noun from the adjective 'tactual' with the productive suffix '-ity' is a regular, clearly derivational process.

Etymology

Tactuality comes from the root tact meaning 'touch', the same root you see in tactile and in the English word 'touch'. So tactuality simply means the quality of being felt or known by touch.