tang

touch, affect

Usage

  • tangible

    Something that is tangible is able to be touched and thus is considered real.

  • contagion

    A contagion is a disease—or the transmission of that disease—that is easily spread from one person to another through touch or the air.

  • integral

    Something that is integral to something else is an essential or necessary part of it.

  • tangential

    A tangential point in an argument merely touches upon something that is not really relevant to the conversation at hand; rather, it is a minor or unimportant point.

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