I just learned that humans don’t have receptors to sense wetness. What is it that we feel when water touches our skin then?

Question

From my understanding, we’re able to feel the temperature, texture and pressure of water. And if we’re able to feel all that, what more else is there? What defines wetness and what should it feel like?

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Answer 1

How is it that our fingertips wrinkle and become pruney underwater then? The act of wrinkling seems to be a reflexive act – fingertips don’t wrinkle underwater if the nerve has been cut.