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Tactile  adj.  Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." "Tactile qualities."
Tactile sense (Physiol.), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. "The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm."






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"Tactile" Quotes from Famous Books



... subject of Emmet, but found him uncommunicative, almost brusque, in his reticence. Leigh suspected that the subject might be a sore one with him, and that he thoroughly disapproved of Miss Wycliffe's odd charity. When a talker is silent, his silence has the tactile quality of Egyptian darkness, and so it now appeared in Cardington. Concerning Miss Wycliffe herself they made no comment, doubtless because they were thinking of her so intently. Leigh reviewed every moment he had passed in her company, recalling each look and word. He was impressed now, more than ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins

... so preoccupied since his return to the city that he hadn't noticed the complete lack of any kind of psi sensation. The constant wash of animal reactions was missing, as was the vague tactile awareness of his PK. With sudden realization he remembered that it was always ...
— Deathworld • Harry Harrison



Words linked to "Tactile" :   touchable, haptic, tactility, tangible, tactual, tactile agnosia, tactile sensation, touch



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