somesthesia vs tactual sensation

tactual sensation vs somesthesia

somesthesia and tactual sensation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
somesthesia	Yes	No	No	No
tactual sensation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tactual sensation is a hyponym of somesthesia; that is, tactual sensation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than somesthesia:

somesthesia: the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
tactual sensation: the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain

Other hyponyms of somesthesia include skin perceptiveness, tactility, touch perception, feeling of movement, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia.

somesthesia (noun)	tactual sensation (noun)
the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs	the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations	the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain

Difference between somesthesia and tactual sensation

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.