The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain.

synonyms: skin perceptiveness, tactual sensation, touch perception.

Roget 379: touch; tact, taction^†, tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation^†; manipulation; massage.    [Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus^†.    ... show more

Dutch: tactiliteit