hapticallyadv.

1903 Mind New Ser. 12 563 Inclinations of the body with head upright, and inclinations of the head with body upright, are both alike haptically underestimated.

1964 Listener 30 July 156/2 Those who are..essentially haptically minded—in other words, who primarily orientate themselves by means of touch, and their own bodily feelings and muscular sensations.

1972 W. M. Austin in A. L. Davis Culture, Class, & Lang. Variety viii. 147 The highly social animals..greet each other haptically by briefly holding each other's muzzles in their mouths.

1999 Crafts July 51/1 The conceptual possibilities for tactile work lie in the fact that information, received haptically, eventually comes through to the level of language.