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1. (n.) sensibility
capacity for feeling; responsiveness to sensory stimuli.
2. sensibility
mental susceptibility or responsiveness.
3. sensibility
Often, sensibilities. acute capacity to respond to blame or praise.
4. sensibility
Often, sensibilities. capacity for intellectual and aesthetic discrimination:
a person of refined sensibilities.
5. sensibility
the property, as in plants or instruments, of being readily affected by external influences.
Etymology: (1325–75; ME sensibilite < MF < LL sēnsibilitās)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) sensibility, esthesia, aesthesia
mental responsiveness and awareness
2. (noun) sensibility
refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
"cruelty offended his sensibility"
3. (noun) sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
"sensitivity to pain"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) sensibility
the quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive
2. (noun) sensibility
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. (noun) sensibility
experience of sensation; actual feeling
4. (noun) sensibility
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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Sense: 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.
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 Afrikaans: gevoeligheid |
 Arabic: شُعور مُرْهَف |
 Bulgarian: усет |
 Brazilian: sensibilidade |
 Czech: senzitivnost |
 German: die Sensibilität |
 Danish: følsomhed |
 Greek: ευαισθησία |
 Spanish: sensibilidad |
 Estonian: tundeerksus |
 Farsi: سليقه؛تشخيص |
 Finnish: herkkyys |
 French: sensibilité |
 Hebrew: רְגִישוּת |
 Hindi: संवेदनशीलता |
 Croatian: osjetljivost, osjećajnost |
 Hungarian: érzékenység |
 Indonesian: kemampuan |
 Icelandic: næmi; gott skynbragð |
 Italian: sensibilità |
 Japanese: 感受性 |
 Korean: 감수성, 정성 |
 Lithuanian: jautrumas, pajauta |
 Latvian: jutīgums; smalka uztveres |
 Malay: daya kepekaan |
 Dutch: gevoeligheid |
 Norwegian: følsomhet, følelse, sanse |
 Polish: wrażliwość |
 Persian: سليقه؛تشخيص |
 Pashto: حساسيت: ځيركتيا، چټك ذهنى |
 Portuguese: sensibilidade |
 Romanian: sensibilitate |
 Russian: чувствительность, восприи |
 Slovak: citlivosť, vnímavosť |
 Slovenian: občutek, občutljivost |
 Serbian: senzibilitet |
 Swedish: känsla, känslighet, sensi |
 Thai: ความรู้สึก; ความไหว |
 Turkish: duyarlık, hassasiyet |
 Taiwanese: 鑑賞力 |
 Ukrainian: чутливість; сприйнятливіс |
 Urdu: معقول بات کا ادراک |
 Vietnamese: tính nhạy cảm tốt |
 Chinese: 识别力，敏感性 |
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