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

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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. William Ellery Channing:

   No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

2. Bryan Cranston:

   We were thinking of the right sensibility of the mom, she has to be a good actor, she has to have comic timing but have the deep well of emotions that this character needed. She is the glue that holds this family together. She’s the emotional center.

3. Anne Geddes:

   We all have a responsibility to guide these babies as we grow, we're all born with a common sensibility. There's only goodness around babies; it's what happens to them as their life develops that can go terribly wrong or right.

4. William Hsu:

   To be successful, you need an anti-establishment sensibility and a willingness to be contrarian, it’s what enables you to get up and do it.

5. Jason Silva:

   Curiosity and wonderment are a big part of the human condition, but often as we ‘grow up’ we tend to lose this connection to the wonder of it all, i often explore big ideas in my series Shots of Awe to wake people up, and I think bringing this sensibility to an actual baby's wonderstruck face struck a nerve... I'm thrilled.

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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