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English Dictionary: sensibility by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sensibility
n
  1. mental responsiveness and awareness [syn: sensibility, esthesia, aesthesia]
    Antonym(s): insensibility
  2. refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility"
  3. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"
    Synonym(s): sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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