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Sensibility
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What's The Definition Of Sensibility?
[n] (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; "sensitivity to pain"
[n] mental responsiveness and awareness [n] refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility" Synonyms | Synonyms for Sensibility: sensitiveness | sensitivity Related Terms | Find terms related to Sensibility: See Also | consciousness | exteroception | hypersensitivity | insight | interoception | perceptiveness | perceptivity | photosensitivity | radiosensitivity | reactivity | responsiveness | sensation | sense | sensitiveness | sensitivity | sensory faculty | sensuousness | sentience | sentiency | withers Sensibility In Webster's Dictionary \Sen`si*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Sensibilities}. [Cf. F.
sensibilit['e], LL. sensibilitas.]
1. (Physiol.) The quality or state of being sensible, or
capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
2. The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from
the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of
impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling;
quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or
pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite
sensibility; -- often used in the plural. ``Sensibilities
so fine!'' --Cowper.
The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of
sensibility. --Burke.
His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of
patriotism than of wounded pride. --Marshall.
3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
This adds greatly to my sensibility. --Burke.
4. That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very
slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility
of a balance, or of a thermometer.
Syn: Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See {Taste}.
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