Definitions for sensibility
ˌsɛn səˈbɪl ɪ tisen·si·bil·i·ty

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. sensibility, esthesia, aesthesianoun

   mental responsiveness and awareness

2. sensibilitynoun

   refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions

   "cruelty offended his sensibility"

3. sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibilitynoun

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

   "sensitivity to pain"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sensibilitynoun

   The ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another

2. sensibilitynoun

   An acute awareness or feeling

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sensibilitynoun

   Etymology: sensibilite, French.

   1. Quickness of sensation.

   Modesty is a kind of quick and delicate feeling in the soul: it is such an exquisite sensibility, as warns a woman to shun the first appearance of every thing hurtful. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

   2. Quickness of perception.

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1. sensibility

   Sensibility refers to the capacity to appreciate, respond to, or perceive emotional, aesthetic, or intellectual stimuli or influences. It is an acute awareness or consciousness towards feelings, or the ability to judge and comprehend complex situations and matters. It can also refer to sensitivity to physical sensations.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sensibilitynoun

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

2. Sensibilitynoun

   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. Sensibilitynoun

   experience of sensation; actual feeling

4. Sensibilitynoun

   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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1. Sensibility

   Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another. This concept emerged in eighteenth-century Britain, and was closely associated with studies of sense perception as the means through which knowledge is gathered. It also became associated with sentimental moral philosophy. One of the first of such texts would be John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, where he says, "I conceive that Ideas in the Understanding, are coeval with Sensation; which is such an Impression or Motion, made in some part of the Body, as makes it be taken notice of in the Understanding." George Cheyne and other medical writers wrote of "The English Malady," also called "hysteria" in women or "hypochondria" in men, a condition with symptoms that closely resemble the modern diagnosis of clinical depression. Cheyne considered this malady to be the result of over-taxed nerves. At the same time, theorists asserted that individuals who had ultra-sensitive nerves would have keener senses, and thus be more aware of beauty and moral truth. Thus, while it was considered a physical and/or emotional fragility, sensibility was also widely perceived as a virtue.

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1. • Physiology
   • Sense
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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sensibility in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sensibility in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of sensibility in a Sentence

1. Bill Murray:

   You know what I always thought was funny as a little kid isn't necessarily the same as what's funny now. Things change and the times change, so it's important for me to figure it out, i think the most important thing is that it's best for the other person. I thought about and that it's not best for the other person, doesn't matter what happens for me. And that gave me a great deal of comfort and relaxation because your brain doesn't operate well when you're in the unknown, when you're thinking like,' well, how can I be so... how can I misperceive ? How can I be so inaccurate and so insensitive,' when you think you're being sensitive to some sensibility that you've had for a long time.

2. Kaushik Basu:

   Our agriculture regulation needs change, but the new laws will end up serving corporate interests more than farmers. Hats off to the sensibility moral strength of India’s farmers.

3. Saul Williams:

   To me, that's what made them iconic — that they had touched on the pulse of something that, in turn, harmonized... the human sensibility and allowed us to empathize beyond our own personal experience.

4. Joe Masaji Klunder:

   Joe Masaji Klunder is a mix of a new Calfornia identity: half white, half Asian. More than just biology, Joe Klunder wants to stand for American Caucasian optimism and endeavor, coupled with Asian American sensibility and communalism.

5. Stephen Baker:

   Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sensibility
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sensibility
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=sensibility
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensibility
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=sensibility