touch modality

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touch modality - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  touch modality
      n 1: the faculty by which external objects or forces are
           perceived through contact with the body (especially the
           hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects
           in the space around us" [syn: touch, sense of touch,
           skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses]