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touch sensation

touch sensation

1 3.9
A feeling on the skin when something presses or rests on it
  • noun
  • /tʌtʃ sɛnˈseɪʃən/
  • Specialized
: sensación táctil
  • The patient reported a loss of touch sensation in her fingertips after the injury.

If the problem was on the backside of the cord, it would cause a a problem potentially with a light touch sensation in the legs.

Examples

  • We might get touch sensation coming into our parietal cortex.

  • If the problem was on the backside of the cord, it would cause a a problem potentially with a light touch sensation in the legs.

    Andrew Huberman

  • After touching the hot stove, he experienced a sharp touch sensation that quickly faded.

  • The doctor explained that nerves are responsible for transmitting touch sensation to the brain.

Synonyms

touch
vstouch sensation
311 1.0

A feeling when your skin meets something or someone

is about the feeling from contact specifically produced by pressure receptors
sensation
vstouch sensation
155 3.5

A feeling in your body from touch, pain, or heat

is limited to the specific skin pressure response rather than all senses
feeling
vstouch sensation
126 1.0

A physical sensation you notice through touch or inside your body

restricts this general sense to pressure-based skin receptor signals
tactile sensation
vstouch sensation
1 4.9

The feeling you get when your skin is touched or pressed

is the same idea but named for pressure receptor responses specifically
skin sensation
vstouch sensation
1 3.5

A feeling you have on the surface of the skin

narrows that surface perception to pressure felt by specific receptors
cutaneous sensation
vstouch sensation
  • Specialized
1 6.0

A feeling on the skin, for example touch, heat, or pain

highlights the pressure-origin aspect rather than all skin perceptions
haptic sensation
vstouch sensation
  • Specialized
1 7.5

A feeling on your skin when you touch or press something

emphasizes pressure receptor activation rather than general touch experience
tactual sensation
vstouch sensation
  • Specialized
7.4

A feeling you get through your skin when you touch something

focuses more narrowly on pressure signals from specific receptors

Antonyms

numbness
19 4.6

Loss of feeling in a body part often caused by cold, pressure, or nerve damage

How Intense

touch sensation
  • Specialized
1 3.9
touch
138 1.8

Surface Forms

touch sensation singular
touch sensations plural

Morphology

touch + sensation

The phrase meaning is directly compositional: 'touch' (skin contact) + 'sensation' (physical feeling) together restate the same concept, so a learner who knows both words can infer the MWE meaning. This noun–noun combination is cross-linguistically common and non-idiomatic, making it immediately transparent to B1 learners.

Etymology

Touch sensation comes from the simple idea of two parts: touch (when something touches your skin) and sensation (a feeling or signal you notice). It pictures tiny nerves in the skin sending a signal to your brain when you are touched, so the phrase now means 'the physical feeling when something comes into contact with the skin'.