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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sensibility \Sen`si*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl {Sensibilities}. [Cf. F.
sensibilit['e], 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. ``Sensibilities
so fine!'' --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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sensibility
n 1: mental responsiveness and awareness [ant: {insensibility}]
2: refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions;
"cruelty offended his sensibility"
3: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli:
"sensitivity to pain" [syn: {sensitivity}, {sensitiveness}]
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