SENSIBILITY


Meaning of SENSIBILITY in English

n. (pl. -ies)

1. capacity to feel (little finger lost its sensibility).

2 a openness to emotional impressions, susceptibility, sensitiveness (sensibility to kindness). b an exceptional or excessive degree of this (sense and sensibility).

3 (in pl.) a tendency to feel offended etc.

Etymology: ME f. LL sensibilitas (as SENSIBLE)

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.