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====== TACTILE ( Active qualities)  ======
  * [[:en:tactile_qualities | Tactile 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.


| hard             | {{:blank:hard.png}}        |  scler(o)-  |  dur(i)-   |   |  कठोर          |
| soft             | {{:blank:soft.png}}        |  malac(o)-  |  moll(i)-  |   |  मुलायम        |

==== 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.

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| smooth           | {{:blank:smooth.png}}      |             |            |   |                |

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.


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| sticky           | {{:blank:Sticky.png}}      |             |            |   |                |


==== Ineptitude or aptitude to Local motion, chiefly in Solids. ==== 


  * STEDDINESS, establish, Stability,
     * FASTNESS, Fixedness, Firmness, stedfast, wistly, set, settle, clenching, Rivet, stick in.
     * LOOSENESS, sleasie, Slackness, unfastned, unfixed, unsteddy, unstedfast, unsettled, Luxation.

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| tight            | {{:blank:tight.png}}       |             |            |   |                |