tactile
adjective/ˈtæktaɪl/
/ˈtæktl/
[usually before noun]- connected with the sense of touch; using your sense of touch
- tactile stimuli
- visual and tactile communication
- tactile fabric (= pleasant to touch)
- tactile maps (= that you can touch and feel)
- He's a very tactile man (= he enjoys touching people).
Oxford Collocations DictionaryTactile is used with these nouns:- sensation
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘perceptible by touch, tangible’): from Latin tactilis, from tangere ‘to touch’.Want to learn more?
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