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haptic
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:57 pm
by magi
haptic
adj.
Of or relating to the sense of touch; tactile.
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:14 pm
by Perry
So if one is exhausted from a very touchy-feely day, on could say, "I'm just about done in by my haptic day".
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:38 pm
by gailr
haptic
SYLLABICATION: hap·tic
PRONUNCIATION: hap' tik
ADJECTIVE: Of or relating to the sense of touch; tactile.
ETYMOLOGY: Greek haptikos, from haptesthai, to grasp, touch.
So those lounge lizard guys are haptic-go-lucky.
-gailr
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:58 pm
by sluggo
So if one is exhausted from a very touchy-feely day, on could say, "I'm just about done in by my haptic day".
Or for a more down-home expression, "I'm on my last haptic nerve"...
(too much of which might give one a haptic ulcer)
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:31 pm
by skinem
I THOUGHT I remembered the commercial jingle..."Reach out, reach out and haptic someone..."
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:25 pm
by Perry
What about, "if you haptic too much it will fall off/you will go blind"?
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:15 pm
by sluggo
What about, "if you haptic too much it will fall off/you will go blind"?
Touchée!
haptically swimming along
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:50 pm
by margie sved
I thought haptic was a totally different sense than touch. Like when you are swimming laps in a pool and you get the sense that you are almost at the other end and start your turn, that's using your haptic sense.
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:15 am
by portokalos
You can find in gospel when Jesus said after his resurrection to a woman: Μη μου άπτου(haptou-haptic)