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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | touching |
| Synonyms: | approximation, closeness, collision, connection, contiguity, contingence, hit, impingement, junction, juxtaposition, nearness, propinquity, proximity, relation, strike, taction, touch, union |
| Antonyms: | avoidance |
| Main Entry: | touch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical contact |
| Synonyms: | blow, brush, caress, collision, communication, contact, contingence, crash, cuddling, embrace, feel, feeling, fondling, graze, grope, handling, hit, hug, impact, junction, kiss, lick, manipulation, nudge, palpation, pat, peck, perception, percussion, petting, push, rub, rubbing, scratch, shock, stroke, stroking, tactility, taction, tap, taste, touching |
| Main Entry: | tactility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | touch |
| Synonyms: | blow*, brush, caress, collision, communication, contact, contingence, crash*, cuddling, embrace, feel, feeling, fondling, graze, grope, handling, hit*, hug, impact, junction, kiss, lick*, manipulation, nudge, palpation, pat, peck, perception, percussion, petting, push*, rub, rubbing, scratch, shock, stroke, stroking, taction, tap, taste, touching |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | touch |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
attingent, close to, contactual, conterminous, contiguous, end to end, hand to hand, haptic, in contact, intractible, itching, lambent, libant, osculatory, palpable, pertingent, tactile, tactual, tangential, tangible, touching, with no interval
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| Concept: | [Sensation of pressure] Touch. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; touch |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
touch; tact, taction, tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation; manipulation; massage., [Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus.
-verbs
touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.
-adjectives
tactual, tactile; tangible, palpable; lambent. [more]
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