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somesthesia

noun
  1. the faculty of bodily perception
    somesthesissomaesthesiasomaesthesissomatesthesiasomataesthesissomatosensory systemsomatic sensory systemsomatic sense
  2. the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations
    “The mountain people relied on somesthesia to warn of pressure changes.”
    somaesthesiasomatesthesiasomatic sensation