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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Sensibility \Sen`si*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Sensibilities}. [Cf. F. sensibilit[82], LL. sensibilitas.] 1. (Physiol.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive. 2. 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. [bd]Sensibilities so fine![b8] --Cowper. The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. --Burke. His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. --Marshall. 3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling. This adds greatly to my sensibility. --Burke. 4. 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. | |
