Sensibility Definition

sĕnsə-bĭlĭ-tē
sensibilities
noun
sensibilities
The capacity for physical sensation; power of responding to stimuli; ability to feel.
Webster's New World
The capacity for being affected emotionally or intellectually, whether pleasantly or unpleasantly; receptiveness to impression.
Webster's New World
Mental or emotional responsiveness, especially in being offended or in having one's feelings hurt.
American Heritage
The capacity to respond perceptively to intellectual, moral, or aesthetic values; delicate, sensitive awareness or responsiveness.
Webster's New World
Liability to be offended, repelled, etc.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Sensibility

Noun

Singular:
sensibility
Plural:
sensibilities

Sensibility Sentence Examples

  • Sensations, or the facts of the sensibility, are necessary; we do not impute them to ourselves.

  • We have reached a time where people treasure the sensibility of classic style.

  • Near the termination of a fatal case there is a paralysis of the sensory columns of the cord, so that general sensibility is lowered.

  • The three great results of psychological observation are Sensibility, Activity or Liberty, and Reason.

  • All light comes from the reason, and it is the reason which apprehends both itself and the sensibility which envelops it, and the will which it obliges but does not constrain.

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Words Starting With

SSESEN

Words Ending With

YTYITY

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Words Starting With S and Ending With Y

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With S11 Letter Words Ending With Y