somesthesia

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noun

1. the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations
- he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes
• Syn:
somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation
• Hypernyms:
perception
• Hyponyms:
feeling, prickling, tingle, tingling, pressure,
pressure sensation, pain, pain sensation, painful sensation, temperature
2. the faculty of bodily perception;
sensory systems associated with the body;
includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
• Syn:
somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis,
somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense
• Hypernyms:
interoception
• Hyponyms:
tactual sensation, tactility, touch perception, skin perceptiveness, kinesthesia,
kinaesthesia, feeling of movement
• Part Meronyms:
touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses, proprioception