taction

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noun

The act of touching; touch; contact.

OriginLatin tactio →
Scrabble 9
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Meanings

nountaction (countable and uncountable, plural tactions)

plural tactions

  1. countableuncountableThe act of touching; touch; contact.
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    It ſeems, the Minds of theſe People are ſo taken up with intenſe Speculations, that they neither can ſpeak, nor attend to the Diſcourſes of others, without being rouzed by ſome external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing; for which reaſon, thoſe Perſons who are able to afford it always keep a Flapper (the Original is Climenole) in their Family, as one of their Domeſticks, nor ever walk abroad or make Viſits without him.

    1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Humours and Dispositions of the Laputians Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), pages 16–17
  2. countableuncountableThe sense of touch.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
tactitiontouch

Origin

  1. Latintactio“touching”
  2. Englishtaction

Latin tactio (“touching”), from perfect passive participle tactus (“sense of feeling”), from tangere (“to touch, feel”) + action suffix -io; see tact and -ion.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Cottian
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APA

taction. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taction

MLA

“taction.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taction. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “taction,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taction.

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