Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or property of being tactile; capability of being touched, or of being perceived by the sense of touch; tangibility; palpability.
- noun Touchiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
tactile - noun The ability to feel
pressure orpain throughtouch
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain
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Examples
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Crary sees the rage for dioramas and stereoscopes as symptoms of the new, nineteenth-century model of vision: "The loss of touch as a conceptual component of vision meant the unloosening of the eye from the network of referentiality incarnated in tactility and its subjective relation to perceived space" (19).
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- George Gurley The Metrocard Blessing You have your Luddites, who still refuse to buy it because they like the "tactility," or whatever, of tokens.
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The Investigator builds on the kind of tactility that was heaped into, another recent Hungarian exercise in bodies turned inside out.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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The Investigator builds on the kind of tactility that was heaped into, another recent Hungarian exercise in bodies turned inside out.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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The Investigator builds on the kind of tactility that was heaped into, another recent Hungarian exercise in bodies turned inside out.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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The Investigator builds on the kind of tactility that was heaped into, another recent Hungarian exercise in bodies turned inside out.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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By contrast, Kent Williams 'current paintings and drawings derive much of their potency from exemplifying figurative painting's alluring tactility and coincidental ties to the long history of eroticized representation.
ArtScene: Top Exhibitions in the West Highlight Opening Weeks of the New Season ArtScene 2010
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By contrast, Kent Williams 'current paintings and drawings derive much of their potency from exemplifying figurative painting's alluring tactility and coincidental ties to the long history of eroticized representation.
ArtScene: Top Exhibitions in the West Highlight Opening Weeks of the New Season ArtScene 2010
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McMillen, by contrast, shrinks his subjects, usually down to toys, but sometimes to 2/3 size, tempting us with tactility and apparently easy heft just as Anderson tempts us with ephemerality and gigantism.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: American Masters, American Dreams Peter Frank 2010
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By contrast, Kent Williams 'current paintings and drawings derive much of their potency from exemplifying figurative painting's alluring tactility and coincidental ties to the long history of eroticized representation.
ArtScene: Top Exhibitions in the West Highlight Opening Weeks of the New Season ArtScene 2010
mollusque commented on the word tactility
. . . I became aware of certain curious details: from the head down I was paralyzed in symmetrical patches separated by a geography of weak tactility.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 242
June 13, 2009