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sensibility

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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.

sensibility
Noun
pl -ties
1. (often pl) the ability to experience deep feelings
2. (usually pl) the tendency to be influenced or offended: its sheer callousness offended her sensibilities
3. the ability to perceive or feel
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.sensibility - mental responsiveness and awareness
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.sensibilitysensibility - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"
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

sensibility
noun 1. awareness, insight, intuition, taste, appreciation, delicacy, discernment, perceptiveness << OPPOSITE lack of awareness
noun 2. (often plural) feelings, emotions, sentiments, susceptibilities, moral sense
Translations
Spanish sensibility [sɛnsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ] nsensibilidad f;
sensibilities npldelicadeza sg

French sensibility [sɛnsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ] nsensibilité f;
sensibilities nplsusceptibilité f

German sensibility [sɛnsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ] sense nEmpfindsamkeit f;
(sensitivity) → Empfindlichkeit f;
to offend sb's sensibilities → jds Zartgefühl verletzen

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A sensibility too tremblingly alive to every affliction of my Freinds, my Acquaintance and particularly to every affliction of my own, was my only fault, if a fault it could be called.
You will think, perhaps, that I must have been a poet, from this early sensibility to Nature.
Wordsworth's own character, as we have already observed, was dominated by a certain contentment, a sort of naturally religious placidity, not often found in union with a poetic sensibility so [97] active as his; and this gentle sense of well-being was favourable to the quiet, habitual observation of the inanimate, or imperfectly animate, world.
 
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