different between haptic vs tactual
haptic
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (haptikós, “able to come in contact with”), from ???? (hápt?, “to touch”) + -???? (-ikós, “suffix forming an adjective from a noun”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?hæpt?k/
- Rhymes: -æpt?k
- Hyphenation: hapt?ic
Adjective
haptic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the sense of touch.
- Synonym: tactile
- (computing) Of or relating to haptics (“the study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch”).
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- haptics (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- haptic technology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- -pathic, pathic, phatic
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tactual
English
Alternative forms
- tactuall (obsolete, rare)
Adjective
tactual (comparative more tactual, superlative most tactual)
- Of, or relating to the sense of touch.
- 1642, Henry More, Psychodia Platonica, Cambridge, Book 3, p. 61,[1]
- […] how doth Psyche heare or see
- That hath nor eyes nor eares? She sees more clear
- Then we that see but secundarily.
- We see at distance by a circular
- Diffusion of that spright of this great sphere
- Of th’Universe: Her sight is tactuall.
- The sunne and all the starres that do appear
- She feels them in herself […]
- 1906, Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic’s Word Book, New York: Doubleday, Page, p. 211,[2]
- […] the later sovereigns of England have not been tactual healers, and the disease once honored with the name “king’s evil” now bears the humbler one of “scrofula” […]
- 1908, Helen Keller, The World I Live In, New York: The Century Co., Chapter 1, p. 8,[3]
- My world is built of touch-sensations, devoid of physical color and sound […] . Every object is associated in my mind with tactual qualities which, combined in countless ways, give me a sense of power, of beauty, or of incongruity: for with my hands I can feel the comic as well as the beautiful in the outward appearance of things.
- 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus, Chapter 3,[4]
- ‘Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry?’ enquired the Assistant Predestinator. ‘I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There’s a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it’s marvellous. Every hair of the bear reproduced. The most amazing tactual effects.’
- 1642, Henry More, Psychodia Platonica, Cambridge, Book 3, p. 61,[1]
Synonyms
- tactile
Derived terms
- tactuality
- tactually
tactual From the web:
- what tactually means
- tactile sensation
- what does tactful mean
- what is tactual aids
- what is tactual learning
- factual information
- what does tactual
- what is tactile stimuli
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