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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A supposed subconscious alertness or diffused ‘touchiness’ due to varying tonicity of the sensory centers of the cortex.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun All of the various
sensory systems in theskin and other bodilytissues responsible for the senses oftouch -pressure ,warmth andcoldness ,pain ,itch together withpositioning andmovement
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
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