tactual
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The patient awoke in the morning with a vivid tactual hallucination of being cut without associating with it any picture of a knife.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
The vident apprehends its various features simultaneously and at once; the blind, by successive tactual palpations.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander
The elephant is the most sagacious of quadrupeds — its tactual range and skill, and the consequent multiplication of experiences, which it owes to its wonderfully adaptable trunk, being the basis of its sagacity.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
It may perhaps be that these perceptions are almost entirely obtained through sense organs which are not labyrinthine, but visual, muscular, tactual, and so on.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
There would be few instances in his limited experience more marked of invariable antecedence and consequence than this,—that the muscular sensation would sooner or later be followed by a tactual one.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
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