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Noun: tactility
  1. The faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure, heat or pain
    - tactual sensation, touch perception, skin perceptiveness

Derived forms: tactilities

Type of: somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somaesthesis [Cdn], somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia [N. Amer], somesthesis [N. Amer]