exteroception vs sense of touch

sense of touch vs exteroception

exteroception and sense of touch both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
exteroception	Yes	No	No	No
sense of touch	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sense of touch is a hyponym of exteroception; that is, sense of touch is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than exteroception:

exteroception: sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
sense of touch: the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)

Other hyponyms of exteroception include sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense, cutaneous senses, skin senses, touch, touch modality, audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing, gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste, olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell.

exteroception (noun)	sense of touch (noun)
sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body	the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)

Difference between exteroception and sense of touch

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