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Tactual   Listen
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Tactual  adj.  (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch. "In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tactual" Quotes from Famous Books



... finds in his consciousness the perception of the table before him which lingers for a little while in his mind. He finds no difficulty in analyzing it into color sensations and tactual sensations; and yet he is aware of so much more in it. The table, for instance, has form for him and he may find that these form perceptions involve the sensations of the eye movements which he makes from one corner of the table to the other; he may find that if the idea lasts in him, he ...
— Psychotherapy • Hugo Muensterberg

... supposed to answer to the most constant and therefore the most deeply organized connections of experience; for, speaking generally, we never have an impression of colour, except when there are circumstances present which are fitted to yield us those simple muscular and tactual experiences through which the ideas of a particular form, size, etc., are ...
— Illusions - A Psychological Study • James Sully



Words linked to "Tactual" :   haptic, tangible, tactual exploration, touch, tactile, touchable



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