tactility

plural tactilities

1. countableuncountableThe condition of being tactile (relating to or able to be perceived by the sense of touch).

   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.

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   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.

   1988, Angela Carter, “John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore”, in Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories, New York: H. Holt, page 337

   Synonyms: tactuality

2. countableuncountableThe ability to feel pressure or pain through touch.