Sensibility

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1. Noun

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

2. Noun

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

Experience of sensation; actual feeling.

4. Noun

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.

5. Noun

(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"
Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare

6. Noun

mental responsiveness and awareness
Vocabulary classified under Psychology

7. Noun

refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility"
Vocabulary classified under Emotion and tone
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