Dictionary

tactility en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English tactile Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English tactility From tactile + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The condition of being tactile (relating to or able to be perceived by the sense of touch).
   • 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.
   • 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. 1988, Angela Carter, “John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore”, in Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories, New York: H. Holt, page 337:
2. (countable, uncountable) The ability to feel pressure or pain through touch.

Forms

Synonyms

tactuality

Translations (1)

es tactilidad (condition of being tactile)