sensibility

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Synonyms: tensibility, feasibility, sensitivity, insensibility, sensibilia, ostensibility, sensibilize, vendibility, sensibilise, cessibility, rinsibility

Antonyms: tensibility, feasibility, sensitivity, insensibility, sensibilia, ostensibility, sensibilize, vendibility, sensibilise, cessibility, rinsibility

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|countable|uncountable|often|in the plural}} [[emotion|Emotions]] or [[feeling#Noun|feelings]] [[arise#Verb|arising]] from or [[relate|relating]] to [[aesthetic#Adjective|aesthetic]] or [[moral#Adjective|moral]] [[standard#Noun|standards]], especially those which are [[sensitive#Adjective|sensitive]] and thus [[likely]] to be [[hurt#Verb|hurt]] or [[offend]]ed. {{defdate|from 18th c.}}
2. {{lb|en|uncountable}} The [[ability]] to [[feel#Verb|feel]], [[perceive]], or [[sense#Verb|sense]]; [[responsiveness]] to [[sensory#Adjective|sensory]] [[stimulus|stimuli]]; [[sensitivity]]; also, the [[degree]] to which someone or something (especially a sensory [[organ#Noun|organ]] or [[tissue#Noun|tissue]]) is [[able#Adjective|able]] to [[respond#Verb|respond]] to sensory stimuli. {{defdate|from 15th c.}}
3. {{lb|en|uncountable}} The [[quality#Noun|quality]] of being [[easily]] [[affect#Verb|affected]] by [[external#Adjective|external]] [[force#Noun|forces]] or stimuli; also, of a [[measure#Verb|measuring]] [[instrument#Noun|instrument]]: the quality of being able to [[detect#Verb|detect]] [[small#Adjective|small]] [[change#Noun|changes]] in the [[environment]].
4. {{lb|en|uncountable}} [[keen#Adjective|Keen]] sensitivity to [[matter#Noun|matters]] of [[creative#Adjective|creative]] [[expression]] or feeling; [[artistic#Adjective|artistic]] or [[emotional#Adjective|emotional]] [[awareness]]. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
5. {{lb|en|uncountable|archaic}}
6. {{senseid|en|philosophy}}{{lb|en|uncountable|philosophy}} The ability to perceive or sense [[as opposed to]] the ability to [[understand#Verb|understand]]; also, in the [[philosophy]] of the [[German#Adjective|German]] [[philosopher]] {{w|Immanuel Kant}} (1724–1804): [[emotion]] or feeling as opposed to the [[will#Noun|will]].
7. {{lb|en|countable|obsolete}}
8. {{lb|en|uncountable|historical|music|art}} {{syn of|en|Empfindsamkeit}}.

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