Sensibility

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  • noun. The ability to perceive stimuli.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Mental or emotional responsiveness, especially in being offended or in having one's feelings hurt.
  • noun. The capacity to respond intelligently to refined emotions, especially in art.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state or property of being sensible or capable of sensation; capability of sensation.
  • noun. Mental receptivity or susceptibility in general.
  • noun. Specifically, the capacity of exercising or being the subject of emotion or feeling in a restricted sense; capacity for the higher or more refined feelings.
  • noun. In a still narrower sense, peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; unusual delicacy or keenness of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; sensitiveness: in this sense used frequently in the plural.
  • noun. The property, as in an instrument, of responding quickly to very slight changes of condition; delicacy; sensitiveness (the better word in this use).
  • noun. Sensation.
  • noun. Feeling; appreciation; sense; realization.
  • noun. Synonyms and Taste, Sensibility. See taste.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
  • 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; ; -- often used in the plural.
  • noun. Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
  • noun. That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another
  • noun. An acute awareness or feeling
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
  • noun. refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
  • noun. mental responsiveness and awareness
  • Word Usage
    "These ocular spectra are of four kinds: 1st, Such as are owing to a less sensibility of a defined part of the retina; or _spectra from defect of sensibility. _ 2d, Such as are owing to a greater sensibility of a defined part of the retina; or _spectra from excess of sensibility_. 3d, Such as resemble their object in its colour as well as form; which may be termed"
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