n. All of the various sensory systems in the skin and other bodily tissues responsible for the senses of touch-pressure, warmth and coldness, pain, itch together with positioning and movement
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A supposed subconscious alertness or diffused ‘touchiness’ due to varying tonicity of the sensory centers of the cortex.
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n. the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs