TACTILE ( Active qualities)
Primary
Homogeneous or Heterogeneous things are congregated, or separated.
- TEMPERATENESS, Warmness, Tepidness, lukewarm.
- HEAT, hot, soultry, ardent, torrid, fervent, swelter, inflame, scald, Parch, Scorch.
- COLDNSSS, bleak, piercing, biting, chill, cool, frigid, refrigerate.
A Body is easily bounded by it self: or conformed to any other Bo∣dy, wherein it may be contained.
- MOISTNESS, dank, damp.
- WETNESS, Humidity, liquid, mash, slabber, daggle.
- DRINESS, Siccity, exsic•ate, arid, sear, parch.
Secondary
- The Texture of parts, as to ‖ nearer: or farther distance.
- CLOSENESS, shrink, Constipation, consolidate, compact.
- DENSITY, Crassitude, Thickness, Condense-ation, thronged, pressed.
- RARITY, Thinness, attenuate, rare-ifie.
- Inclination to Motion ‖ downwards: or upwards.
- WEIGHTINESS, massie.
- GRAVITY, Ponderousness, Heaviness, lumpish, weighing, pressing down.
- LEVITY, Lightness.
- Aptitude or Ineptitude to Motion.
- Common to Liquids and Solids.
- CONSISTENCY, congeal, stand.
- HARDNESS, indurate, callous, brawny.
- FLVIDITY, liquid, flow, dissolve.
- Proper to Solids.
- FLEXIBLENESS, Pliableness, pliant, bend, bow, stoop.
- LIMBERNESS, supple, lank, lith, ling, gentle, pliant, plia∣ble, slack, flagging.
- STIFNESS, stark, tite, rigid, harsh, inflexible.
TACTILE ( Passive qualities)
Giving way to: or resisting of the Touch.
- YIELDINGNESS, give place.
- SOFTNESS, Tenderness, mollifie, relent, give.
- HARDNESS, obdurate, indurate, callous.
Fabric of Bodies, as to their
Superficies; being ‖ more: or less plain.
- EVENNESS, plain, level.
- SMOOTHNESS, Sleekness, glibbery, slippery, terse, polite, polish, burnish, Calender.
- ROVGHNESS, Asperity, Ruggedness, uneven, harsh, ruffle, rumple, puckered, cragged.
Bulk, being in its self, or in its parts, of ‖ an indifferent: or of a great∣er or smaller magnitude.
- ORDINARINESS, of the most usual and common size:
- COVRSNESS, gross, thick.
- FINENESS, Tenuity, Subtilty, thin, attenuate.
Adhesion of parts, in
Solids
- FIRMNESS, Fastness.
- TOVGHNESS, ductile, malleable.
- BRITTLENESS, Friableness, crisp, short, frail, fragil.
liquids
- SLIMINESS, mucilaginous, roping.
- CLAMMINESS, viscous, adhering, stick to, cling, cleaving, glu∣tinous, Bird-lime.
- VNCTVOVSNESS, Slipperiness, Lubricity, glib.