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touching (physically feeling)

physical contact involving one or more sentient agents (for contact between non-sentient objects, use Q38183514)
Class type of: intentional human activity, physical contact Q877674

Facts

8 properties
Subclass of
intentional human activity, physical contact[1][2]
Part of
haptic perception[3]
Contributing factor of
infection, injury[6][7]
Described by source
Touch[4]
Different from
physical contact[9]
Has effect
haptic perception[8]
Partially coincident with
holding[5]
Studied by
haptics[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en touch en touching (physically feeling) en touching ar لمسة cs dotyk de Tastsinn de Berührung el άγγιγμα es tacto es haptica es háptica fa لمس fi kosketus fr toucher he "חוש המישוש" he מגע he מישוש hi छूना hi स्पर्श hi स्पर्शन
🔖 Identifiers · 27
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85136234
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Touchingapieceofthemoon.jpg ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300055142
BNCF Thesaurus ID
21400
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11962402c
Biblissima authority ID
Feininger
Concepticon concept set ID
1892
Dewey Decimal Classification
573.875
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/touch-sense
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/122ysm84, /g/11hzcy7z49
KBpedia ID
Touching-Handling-Management
MeSH descriptor ID
D014110
Show all 27 identifiers +15
MeSH tree code
F02.830.816.850, G11.561.790.850
NL CR AUT ID
ph317205
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007541463405171
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrtgb2sTfcBKy
Quora topic ID
Touch-sense
RKD thesaurus ID
63834
SVKKL authority ID
h0000948-hmat
ScienceDirect topic ID
agricultural-and-biological-sciences/touch-sensation
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID
touch
Store medisinske leksikon ID
berøringssans, berøringssansen
Topic's main category
Category:Somatosensory system
UMLS CUI
C0702221
Vikidia article ID
fr:Toucher
YSO ID
1964
Yale LUX ID
concept/d7ba67d3-3e49-405c-bb65-e8f0122d26cc

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🔗 Connections
← Uses 4
haptic perception, physical intimacy, haptic communication, tactile sensor
Contributing factor of 2
infection, injury
Has effect 1
haptic perception
Influenced 1
electrical injury
Part of 1
haptic perception
Subclass of 1
intentional human activity
Subtypes 1
physical intimacy
Topic's main category 1
Category:Somatosensory system
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Somatosensory system
← Depicts 1
Fuller Brooch
← Does not have part 1
air kiss
← Facet of 1
skin hunger
← Has cause 1
somatosensory system
← Has part(s) of the class 1
double dribble
← Main subject 1
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Why It Matters

touching (physically feeling) has been cited as an influence by electrical injury[11], a cause of death[12].

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touching (physically feeling) has been cited as an influence by electrical injury[11].

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  1. 18d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'en', 'eo', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ko', 'la', 'new', 'nl', 'no',
    Store medisinske leksikon ID → berøringssans, berøringssansen
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Feininger
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  3. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0000948-hmat
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  4. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Studied by → haptics
    Subclass of → intentional human activity, physical contact
    Part of → haptic perception
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ YSO ID: 1964, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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