somesthesis

Noun

• the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
• All of the various sensory systems in the skin and other bodily tissues responsible for the senses of touch-pressure, warmth and coldness, pain, itch together with positioning and movement

Synonyms

somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia