Dictionary

tactuality en · NOUN

Etymology

From tactual + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being tactual (relating to the sense of touch); that which concerns or is characterized by touch.
   • 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. 1949, Oets Kolk Bouwsma, “Descartes’ Evil Genius”, in Alexander Sesonske, Noel Fleming, editors, Meta-Meditations: Studies in Descartes, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, published 1965, page 32:
   • 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.
   • […] what [Sigmund Freud] calls infant sexuality appears to be, as Lawrence Frank has observed, largely tactuality. 1971, Ashley Montagu, chapter 5, in Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin, New York: Columbia University Press, page 170:

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Synonyms

tactility