tactility

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English tactile
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂tsder.
Latin -itās
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English tactility

    From tactile + -ity.

    Noun

    tactility (countable and uncountable, plural tactilities)

    1. The condition of being tactile (relating to or able to be perceived by the sense of touch).
      Synonym: tactuality
      • 1988, Angela Carter, “John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore”, in Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories‎[1], New York: H. Holt, page 337:
        Each time they lay down there together, as if she obeyed a voice that came out of the quilt telling her to put the light out, she would extinguish the candle flame between her finger-tips. All around them, the tactility of the dark.
      • 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: Phoenix, 1994, Part 8, p. 554,[2]
        Maan loved swimming, not for the exercise but for the luxury, the tactility of it.
    2. The ability to feel pressure or pain through touch.

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