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Tactual

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Tactile.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, or relating to the sense of touch; tactile.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Communicating or imparting the sense of touch; giving rise to the feeling of contact or impingement.

Arising from or due to touch; impressed or communicated by contact or impingement; relating to or originating in touch.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. producing a sensation of touch

adj. of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch

Word Usage

"In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body; then, through impressions from without and their corresponding adjustments, special portions of the surface become more responsive to stimuli than others."

Equivalent

tangible touchable

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

tactile tactic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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