Definition of somaesthesis Somaesthesis

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What does somaesthesis mean?

Noun
somaesthesis - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
		somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense
		interoception sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body
		cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, touch the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights"
		proprioception the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts
		skin perceptiveness, tactility, touch perception, tactual sensation the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain