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tactual

[ tak-choo-uhl ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the sense of touch.
  2. communicating or imparting the sensation of contact; arising from or due to touch.


tactual

/ ˈtæktjʊəl /

adjective

  1. caused by touch; causing a tactile sensation
  2. of or relating to the tactile sense or the organs of touch
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈtactually, adverb
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Other Words From

  • tactu·al·ly adverb
  • un·tactu·al adjective
  • un·tactu·al·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tactual1

1635–45; < Latin tāctu ( s ) touch ( tact ) + -al 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tactual1

C17: from Latin tactus a touching; see tact
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Example Sentences

“I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There’s a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it’s marvellous. Every hair of the bear reproduced. The most amazing tactual effects.”

The visual sense had here been rapidly replaced by the tactual and auditive senses.

Did the beard really exist, or was it only a case of tactual and visual sensations?

He pointed out that, as above noted, in the lowest organisms sensation is a general thing diffused throughout the body, a kind of general tactual sense.

In connexion with extension elaborate psycho-physical experiments have been devised,.e.g. with the object of comparing the accuracy of tactual and visual perception and discovering what are the least differences which each can observe.

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