Australian English Meaning of sensibility

Sensibility

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Definitions and Meaning of sensibility in English

Wordnet

sensibility (n)

mental responsiveness and awareness

refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions

(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation

Webster

sensibility (n.)

The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

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.

Experience of sensation; actual feeling.

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.

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sensibilities => Sensibilities, sensibilise => sensitise, sensery => sensory, senselessness => senselessness, senselessly => senselessly,