tactuality

English

Etymology

tactual +‎ -ity

Noun

tactuality (countable and uncountable, plural tactualities)

The quality of being tactual (relating to the sense of touch); that which concerns or is characterized by touch.
- 1858, William Robinson Pirie, An Inquiry into the Constitution, Powers, and Processes of the Human Mind, Aberdeen: A. Brown, Chapter 7, p. 398,
  […] we are just as conscious of a cause of vision as of a cause of tactual feeling, and it is not improbable that we have even a sense of tactuality, if we may so speak, in the secondary sensations.
- 1949, Oets Kolk Bouwsma, “Descartes’ Evil Genius” in Alexander Sesonske and Noel Fleming (eds.), Meta-Meditations: Studies in Descartes, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1965, p. 32,
  Each heard with the same ear what the other heard. For every sniffing of the one nose there were two identical smells, and there were two tactualities for every touch.
- 1971, Ashley Montagu, Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin, New York: Columbia University Press, Chapter 5, p. 170,
  […] what [Sigmund Freud] calls infant sexuality appears to be, as Lawrence Frank has observed, largely tactuality.

Synonyms

tactility

单词	tactuality
释义	tactuality English Etymology tactual +‎ -ity Noun tactuality (countable and uncountable, plural tactualities) The quality of being tactual (relating to the sense of touch); that which concerns or is characterized by touch. 1858, William Robinson Pirie, An Inquiry into the Constitution, Powers, and Processes of the Human Mind, Aberdeen: A. Brown, Chapter 7, p. 398, […] we are just as conscious of a cause of vision as of a cause of tactual feeling, and it is not improbable that we have even a sense of tactuality, if we may so speak, in the secondary sensations. 1949, Oets Kolk Bouwsma, “Descartes’ Evil Genius” in Alexander Sesonske and Noel Fleming (eds.), Meta-Meditations: Studies in Descartes, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1965, p. 32, Each heard with the same ear what the other heard. For every sniffing of the one nose there were two identical smells, and there were two tactualities for every touch. 1971, Ashley Montagu, Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin, New York: Columbia University Press, Chapter 5, p. 170, […] what [Sigmund Freud] calls infant sexuality appears to be, as Lawrence Frank has observed, largely tactuality. Synonyms tactility
随便看	proseminaveritis proseminavero proseminaverunt proseminavi proseminavimus proseminavisse proseminavissem proseminavissemus proseminavissent proseminavisses proseminavisset proseminavissetis proseminavisti proseminavistis proseminavit proseminem proseminemini proseminemur proseminemus proseminent proseminentur proseminer proseminere prosemineris prosemines