'Sensibility' definitions:
Definition of 'sensibility'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
Refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility"
noun
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain" [syn: sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility]
Definition of 'Sensibility'
From: GCIDE
- Sensibility \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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. --Marshall. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling. [1913 Webster]
- This adds greatly to my sensibility. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See Taste. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sensibility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acuity,
- acumen,
- acuteness,
- adaptability,
- affectibility,
- affection,
- affectivity,
- agreeability,
- amenability,
- apperception,
- appreciation,
- appreciation of differences,
- appreciativeness,
- artistic judgment,
- astuteness,
- awareness,
- bendability,
- cogency,
- cognition,
- cognizance,
- connoisseurship,
- consciousness,
- critical niceness,
- criticalness,
- delicacy,
- discernment,
- discriminating taste,
- discriminatingness,
- discrimination,
- discriminativeness,
- ductibility,
- ductility,
- elasticity,
- emotion,
- emotions,
- extendibility,
- extensibility,
- facility,
- farseeingness,
- farsightedness,
- fastidiousness,
- feel,
- feeling,
- feelings,
- fictility,
- fine palate,
- finesse,
- flexibility,
- flexility,
- flexuousness,
- foresight,
- foresightedness,
- formativeness,
- give,
- heart,
- impressibility,
- impressionability,
- incisiveness,
- insight,
- judiciousness,
- keenness,
- limberness,
- limen,
- litheness,
- longheadedness,
- longsightedness,
- making distinctions,
- malleability,
- mindfulness,
- moldability,
- niceness of distinction,
- nicety,
- noesis,
- note,
- notice,
- openness to sensation,
- palate,
- penetration,
- perceptibility,
- perception,
- perceptiveness,
- percipience,
- perspicaciousness,
- perspicacity,
- perspicuity,
- perspicuousness,
- physical sensibility,
- plasticity,
- pliability,
- pliancy,
- providence,
- readiness of feeling,
- realization,
- receptiveness,
- receptivity,
- recognition,
- refined discrimination,
- refined palate,
- refinement,
- responsiveness,
- sagaciousness,
- sagacity,
- selectiveness,
- sensation level,
- sense,
- sensibilities,
- sensibleness,
- sensitiveness,
- sensitivity,
- sentience,
- sentiency,
- sentiments,
- sequacity,
- springiness,
- submissiveness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- susceptibility,
- susceptivity,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- taste,
- tensileness,
- tensility,
- threshold of sensation,
- tractability,
- tractility,
- trenchancy,
- willowiness