Thesaurus: sensibility

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1. n. The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
2. n. 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.
3. n. Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
4. n. 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.
5. n. mental responsiveness and awareness
6. n. refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
7. n. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
8. 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.
9. The quality or state of being sensible, or capable ofsensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
10. n:100 n. mental responsiveness and awareness n. refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions