Noun

• S: (n) touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling (the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin) "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) perception (the process of perceiving)
• S: (n) constancy, perceptual constancy ((psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation)
• S: (n) detection, sensing (the perception that something has occurred or some state exists) "early detection can often lead to a cure"
• S: (n) visual perception, beholding, seeing (perception by means of the eyes)
• S: (n) auditory perception, sound perception (the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon)
• S: (n) sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum (an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation) "a sensation of touch"
• S: (n) somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation (the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations) "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes"
• S: (n) touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling (the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin) "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) tactual sensation, tactility, touch perception, skin perceptiveness (the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain)