SENSIBILITY


Meaning of SENSIBILITY in English

noun experience of sensation; actual feeling.

2. sensibility ·noun the quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

3. sensibility ·noun 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.

4. sensibility ·noun 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.

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