- somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somatatesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
--1 is a kind of interoception
--1 has parts:
--1 has particulars:touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses; proprioception tactual sensation, tactility, touch perception, skin perceptiveness; kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, feeling of movement