feel the need

: to handle or touch in order to examine, test, or explore some quality

: to perceive by a physical sensation coming from discrete end organs (as of the skin or muscles)

: to undergo passive experience of

: sensation, feeling

: the sense of touch

: the quality of a thing as imparted through or as if through touch

: necessary duty : obligation

: a lack of something requisite, desirable, or useful

: a physiological or psychological requirement for the well-being of an organism

: to be needful or necessary

: to be in want

: to be in need of : require