sensibility

Sensibility is your sensitivity to stimulus or other things that makes you react in a certain way.

(noun)

When you are easily offended, this is an example of your sensibility.

See sensibility in Webster's New World College Dictionary

the capacity for physical sensation; power of responding to stimuli; ability to feel
1. the capacity for being affected emotionally or intellectually, whether pleasantly or unpleasantly; receptiveness to impression
2. the capacity to respond perceptively to intellectual, moral, or aesthetic values; delicate, sensitive awareness or responsiveness
3. liability to be offended, repelled, etc.

Origin: ME < MFr < LL sensibilitas < L sensibilis: see sensible

See sensibility in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. sen·si·bil·i·ties

The ability to feel or perceive.
a. Keen intellectual perception: the sensibility of a painter to color.
b. Mental or emotional responsiveness toward something, such as the feelings of another.
Receptiveness to impression, whether pleasant or unpleasant; acuteness of feeling. Often used in the plural: “The sufferings of the Cuban people shocked our sensibilities” (George F. Kennan).
Refined awareness and appreciation in matters of feeling.
The quality of being affected by changes in the environment.

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