tactual

American  

[tak-choo-uhl] / ˈtæk tʃu əl /

adjective

1. of or relating to the sense of touch.

2. communicating or imparting the sensation of contact; arising from or due to touch.

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tactual British  

/ ˈtæktjʊəl /

adjective

1. caused by touch; causing a tactile sensation

2. of or relating to the tactile sense or the organs of touch

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Other Word Forms

• tactually adverb
• untactual adjective
• untactually adverb

Etymology

Origin of tactual

1635–45; < Latin tāctu ( s ) touch ( see tact) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

The common element cannot possibly be supplied either by the data of visual sensation which the blind do not possess, or by the data of passive tactual sensation which the vident hardly ever employ.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander

I know that I must have dreamed because I recall no break in my tactual experiences.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen

Diderot attempts to solve the problem by maintaining that tactual sensations occupy an extended space which the blind in thought can add to or contract, and in this way equip himself with spatial conceptions.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander

The slow change in the position of the tactual sensations evidently produces a rather strong influence on the equilibrium of nervous impulses, and here again vasomotor reflexes seem to arise easily.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

He affirms that the image of an object which the blind acquires by touch readily divests itself of the characters of tactual sensation and differs profoundly from these.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander