touch perception

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touch perception - the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or painskin perceptiveness, tactility, tactual sensationsomatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somesthesia - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs