tactuality
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The quality of being tactual (relating to the sense of touch); that which concerns or is characterized by touch.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "1858, William Robinson Pirie, An Inquiry into the Constitution, Powers, and Processes of the Human Mind, Aberdeen: A. Brown, Chapter 7, p. 398, […] we are just as conscious of a cause of vision as of a cause of tactual feeling, and it is not improbable that we have even a sense of tactuality, if we may so speak, in the secondary sensations."
- "Each heard with the same ear what the other heard. For every sniffing of the one nose there were two identical smells, and there were two tactualities for every touch."
- "[…] what [Sigmund Freud] calls infant sexuality appears to be, as Lawrence Frank has observed, largely tactuality."
Etymology
From tactual + -ity.