tactility

IPA: tæktˈɪɫʌti

The condition of being tactile (relating to or able to be perceived by the sense of touch).
The ability to feel pressure or pain through touch.

Examples of "tactility" in Sentences

The Investigator builds on the kind of tactility that was heaped into, another recent Hungarian exercise in bodies turned inside out.
- George Gurley The Metrocard Blessing You have your Luddites, who still refuse to buy it because they like the "tactility," or whatever, of tokens.
McMillen, by contrast, shrinks his subjects, usually down to toys, but sometimes to 2/3 size, tempting us with tactility and apparently easy heft just as Anderson tempts us with ephemerality and gigantism.
By contrast, Kent Williams 'current paintings and drawings derive much of their potency from exemplifying figurative painting's alluring tactility and coincidental ties to the long history of eroticized representation.
Crary sees the rage for dioramas and stereoscopes as symptoms of the new, nineteenth-century model of vision: "The loss of touch as a conceptual component of vision meant the unloosening of the eye from the network of referentiality incarnated in tactility and its subjective relation to perceived space" (19).