tactility

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Definition of tactility

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The condition of being tactile (relating to or able to be perceived by the sense of touch).
    “Each time they lay down there together, as if she obeyed a voice that came out of the quilt telling her to put the light out, she would extinguish the candle flame between her finger-tips. All around them, the tactility of the dark.”
    “1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: Phoenix, 1994, Part 8, p. 554, Maan loved swimming, not for the exercise but for the luxury, the tactility of it.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The condition of being tactile (relating to or able to be perceived by the sense of touch).
    “Each time they lay down there together, as if she obeyed a voice that came out of the quilt telling her to put the light out, she would extinguish the candle flame between her finger-tips. All around them, the tactility of the dark.”
    “1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: Phoenix, 1994, Part 8, p. 554, Maan loved swimming, not for the exercise but for the luxury, the tactility of it.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)The ability to feel pressure or pain through touch.

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Etymology

From tactile + -ity.

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