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Meaning of 'sensibility' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sensibility [ n.]
- The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
- 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.
- Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
- 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.

Meaning of 'sensibility' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sensibility [ n]
Meaning (1):
- refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
Example in sentence:
  • cruelty offended his sensibility
Meaning (2):
- (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
Example in sentence:
  • sensitivity to pain

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