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somesthesia
 
Noun somesthesia has 2 senses
  1. somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation - the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations; "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes"
    --1 is a kind of perception
    --1 has particulars:
     feeling; prickling, tingle, tingling; pressure, pressure sensation; pain, painful sensation; temperature
  2. somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somatatesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
    --2 is a kind of interoception
    --2 has parts:
     touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses; proprioception
     --2 has particulars:
     tactual sensation, tactility, touch perception, skin perceptiveness; kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, feeling of movement
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