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Tactile

Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.

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Tangible 84% connected

Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.

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Tangible 84% connected

Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.

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Touchable 84% connected

Capable of being touched; tangible.

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Touchable 84% connected

Capable of being touched; tangible.

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Tactility 74% connected

The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.

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Tactility 74% connected

The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.

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Tactual 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.

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Afferent adjective · 78% connection

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensatio…

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Antenna noun · 78% connection

A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually fo…

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Border verb · 78% connection

To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the reg…

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Coenesthesis noun · 78% connection

Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate o…

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Corpuscle noun · 78% connection

A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellul…

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Deafness noun · 78% connection

Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of…

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Differentiation noun · 78% connection

The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root an…

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Feeler noun · 78% connection

One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an ante…

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Feeling noun · 78% connection

The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; tha…

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Flower noun · 78% connection

That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the or…

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Haematoblast noun · 78% connection

One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood…

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Haemocytotrypsis noun · 78% connection

A breaking up of the blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or haemcytolysis.

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Humidity noun · 78% connection

Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or o…

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Impalpability noun · 78% connection

the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch

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Impatiens noun · 78% connection

A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched,…

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Intactable adjective · 78% connection

Not perceptible to the touch.

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Intangibility noun · 78% connection

the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch

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Intangible adjective · 78% connection

Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.

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