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Definition of Tactual

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch. "A tactile reflex"

2. Adjective. Producing a sensation of touch. "The tactual luxury of stroking silky human hair"

Definition of Tactual

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

Definition of Tactual

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to the sense of touch; tactile. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tactual

1. tactile [adj] - See also: tactile

Medical Definition of Tactual

1. Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch. "In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body." (Tyndall) See: Tact. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tactual

tactilely tactilities tactility taction tactions tactism tactisms tactless tactlessly tactlessness

tactlessnesses tactometer tactometers tactor tacts tactual (current term) tactual exploration tactual sensation tactuall tactually

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Literary usage of Tactual

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"tactual percepts of the blind. Wundt o< tactual perception of the blind. ... General coi sions regarding tactual space. Auditory recognition of locai ..."

2. Psychology: General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1907)
"The peripheral endings of tactual Fio. 38 A. tactual end organs. A section of the cornea of the eye much magnified. The small cells in the upper part of the ..."

3. The Human Mind: A Text-book of Psychology / by James Sully by James Sully (1892)
"Vitual and tactual Apprehension of Reality. The intuition of thing as material object and as a unity has already been dealt with in a measure under the head ..."

4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1889)
"There is no such thing as a separate centre for tactual ideas, ... The tactual centre represents the skin and muscles of the part of the periphery ..."

5. The Teacher's Handbook of Psychology by James Sully (1910)
"Differences of tactual and Visual Perception. I'll tactual perception of space is ... Yet in another way visual perception greatly transcends tactual. ..."

6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"tactual images as I moved my finger, especially an image of touching the lever. ... Attention all on tactual images. As I was moving across I had the verbal ..."

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