tactition

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tactition (uncountable)

  1. (physiology) The sense of touch or pressure.
    • 2012, I. Scott MacKenzie, Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective[1]:
      Although touch, or tactition, is considered one of the five traditional human senses, touch is just one component of the somatosensory system.