sensibility (redirected from deep sensibility)

sen·si·bil·i·ty  (sns-bl-t)

n. pl. sen·si·bil·i·ties

1. The ability to feel or perceive.

2.

a. Keen intellectual perception: the sensibility of a painter to color.

b. Mental or emotional responsiveness toward something, such as the feelings of another.

3. Receptiveness to impression, whether pleasant or unpleasant; acuteness of feeling. Often used in the plural: "The sufferings of the Cuban people shocked our sensibilities" (George F. Kennan).

4. Refined awareness and appreciation in matters of feeling.

5. The quality of being affected by changes in the environment.

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sensibility [ˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ]

n pl -ties

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) the ability to perceive or feel

2. (often plural) the capacity for responding to emotion, impression, etc.

3. (often plural) the capacity for responding to aesthetic stimuli

4. mental responsiveness; discernment; awareness

5. (usually plural) emotional or moral feelings cruelty offends most people's sensibilities

6. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the condition of a plant of being susceptible to external influences, esp attack by parasites

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sensibility - mental responsiveness and awareness aesthesia, esthesia consciousness - an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation; "he lost consciousness" insensibility - a lack of sensibility
	2.	sensibility - refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility" sensitiveness, sensitivity - sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) perceptiveness, perceptivity, insight - a feeling of understanding sensuousness - a sensuous feeling
	3.	sensibility - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain" sensitivity, sensitiveness sensory faculty, sentiency, sentience, sense, sensation - the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing" acuteness - a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed; "dogs have a remarkable acuteness of smell" hypersensitivity - extreme sensitivity reactivity, responsiveness - responsive to stimulation exteroception - sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body interoception - sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body photosensitivity, radiosensitivity - sensitivity to the action of radiant energy physiology - the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms

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sensibility

noun

1. awareness, insight, intuition, taste, appreciation, delicacy, sensitivity, discernment, perceptiveness Everything he writes demonstrates the depths of his sensibility.
awareness unconsciousness, lack of awareness, insensibility, unperceptiveness, insensitivity, insensibility

2. (often plural) feelings, emotions, sentiments, susceptibilities, moral sense The challenge offended their sensibilities.

Translations

sensibility [ˌsensɪˈbɪlɪtɪ] N

1. → sensibilidad f (to a)

2. sensibilities → susceptibilidad fsing

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sensibility [ˌsɛnsɪˈbɪləti]

n

(= awareness) → sensibilité f sensibilities

npl → sensibilités fpl
to offend sb's sensibilities → heurter les sensibilités de qn

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sensibility

n (to beauty etc) → Empfindsamkeit f; (= artistic sensibility also) → Sensibilität f; (= emotional sensibility, susceptibility to insult) → Empfindlichkeit f, → Sensibilität f; sensibilities → Zartgefühl nt

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sensibility [ˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ] n (delicacy of feeling) → sensibilità f inv

b. (sensitivity) → suscettibilità f inv

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sensibility [ˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ] n (delicacy of feeling) → sensibilità f inv

b. (sensitivity) → suscettibilità f inv

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sensibility

n sensibility [sensiˈbiləti]

an awareness of, or an ability to create, art, literature etc showing very high standards of beauty and good taste a writer of great sensibility. gevoeligheid شُعور مُرْهَف усет senzitivnost følsomhed die Sensibilität ευαισθησία sensibilidad tundeerksus سليقه؛تشخيص herkkyys sensibilité רְגִישוּת संवेदनशीलता osjetljivost, osjećajnost érzékenység kemampuan næmi; gott skynbragð sensibilità 感受性 감수성, 정성 jautrumas, pajauta jutīgums; smalka uztveres spēja daya kepekaan gevoeligheid følsomhet, følelse, sanseevne wrażliwość sensibilidade sensibilitate чувствительность, восприимчивость citlivosť, vnímavosť občutek, občutljivost senzibilitet känsla, känslighet, sensibilitet ความรู้สึก; ความไหว duyarlık, hassasiyet 鑑賞力 чутливість; сприйнятливість معقول بات کا ادراک tính nhạy cảm tốt 敏感性

n pl sensiˈbilities

feelings that can be easily hurt by criticism etc Do try not to offend her sensibilities. fyngevoeligheid حَساسِيّات чуствителност citlivost følelser das Feingefühl ευαισθησία, λεπτά αισθήματα susceptibilidad, sensibilidad tunded حساسيت؛نازك طبعي tunteet susceptibilité רְגָשוֹת संवेदनशील osjećaji érzékenység perasaan fínustu tilfinningar suscettibilità 感じやすさ 감수성 jausmai patmīlība; vārīgā vieta; smalkjūtība perasaan gevoeligheid følelser uczucia susceptibilidades susceptibilitate самолюбие; чувствительность jemnocit preobčutljivost osećajnost känslor ความรู้สึกอ่อนไหวง่าย duygululuk, içlilik 敏感的情緒 уразливість جذبات sự đa cảm 情感