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Definition of tactile adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

tactile

adjective
 
/ˈtæktaɪl/
 
/ˈtæktl/
[usually before noun]
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  1. connected with the sense of touch; using your sense of touch
    • tactile stimuli
    • visual and tactile communication
    • tactile fabric (= pleasant to touch)
    • tactile maps (= that you can touch and feel)
    • He's a very tactile man (= he enjoys touching people).
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryTactile is used with these nouns:
    • sensation
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘perceptible by touch, tangible’): from Latin tactilis, from tangere ‘to touch’.
See tactile in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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