contactile

contactile, a. rare.

(kənˈtæktɪl)

[ad. L. type contactil-is, f. contact- ppl. stem of contingĕre (see above). Cf. L. tactilis tactile.]

Relating to contact and the sensation of contact.

‘Contactile discrimination, the capacity to distinguish as two the simultaneous impressions of two somewhat separated points on the surface of the skin’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1882).