somesthesis
All of the various sensory systems in the skin and other bodily tissues responsible…All of the various sensory systems in the skin and other bodily tissues responsible for the senses of touch-pressure, warmth and coldness, pain, itch together with positioning and movement
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)All of the various sensory systems in the skin and other bodily tissues responsible for the senses of touch-pressure, warmth and coldness, pain, itch together with positioning and movement
the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
Origin
Blend of somatic + esthesis.Blend of somatic + esthesis.
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Synonyms
8 synonymsClose in meaning
- the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs:somesthesiasomaesthesiasomaesthesissomatesthesiasomataesthesissomatosensory systemsomatic sensory systemsomatic sense
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable