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Meaning of Tactility | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The condition of being tactile (relating to or able to be perceived by the sense of touch).
    countable, uncountable
  2. The ability to feel pressure or pain through touch.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية حاسّة اللّمس
Ελληνικά αισθητότητα
Español tactilidad
Українська тактильність

Examples

“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, Maan loved swimming, not for the exercise but for the luxury, the tactility of it.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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