somesthesia

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Noun
1. the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations; "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes"
(synonym) somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation
(hypernym) perception
(hyponym) feeling
2. the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
(synonym) somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somatatesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense
(hypernym) interoception
(hyponym) tactual sensation, tactility, touch perception, skin perceptiveness
(part-meronym) touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses