WordNet
n. the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling" [syn: touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, feeling]
Usage examples of "tactile sensation".
I kept up the pressure, and abruptly I felt the cold metal of the cuff flick over the outside of my thumb, one of the few spots on my fingers where much tactile sensation remained.
This absolute of feeling, both emotion and tactile sensation, was a thrill not duplicated in his living.
As he gained certainty the tactile sensation increased in strength.
There was no sound to hear, no tactile sensation present in this flat universe which had captured her, only the image itself.
The whole point about the world inside a VE hood, backed up by the full panoply of smartsuit-induced tactile sensation, was that it was better than the real world: brighter, cleaner, and more controllable.
My God, he was blind, deaf, deprived of all tactile sensation and every metafaculty but self-awareness.
Closing his eyes at the tactile sensation, John dipped his head and captured her mouth in a savory, burning kiss.
Instead, she began fondling small tight buttocks while the young Arep's hands and lips played her body in a warm serenade of tactile sensation.
I assume that even a fetus well along in its development in the womb must have some sort of tactile sensation.