Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); 
- Example: "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us"[syn: touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
touch modality
    n 1: the faculty by which external objects or forces are
         perceived through contact with the body (especially the
         hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects
         in the space around us" [syn: touch, sense of touch,
         skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses]