Sensibility

Quick meaning: Sensibility is a noun meaning (uncountable) Keen sensitivity to matters of creative expression or feeling; artistic or emotional awareness.

Meaning

(uncountable) Keen sensitivity to matters of creative expression or feeling; artistic or emotional awareness.

More Meanings

1. Awareness; also, understanding.
2. The capacity of something to be perceived by the senses; perceptibility.
3. Of a plant or one of its parts: the ability to move in response to a stimulus.
4. (countable, uncountable, often in the plural) Emotions or feelings arising from or relating to aesthetic or moral standards, especially those which are sensitive and thus likely to be hurt or offended.
5. (uncountable) The quality of being easily affected by external forces or stimuli; also, of a measuring instrument: the quality of being able to detect small changes in the environment.
6. (uncountable, philosophy) The ability to perceive or sense as opposed to the ability to understand; also, in the philosophy of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804): emotion or feeling as opposed to the will.
7. (uncountable) The ability to feel, perceive, or sense; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity; also, the degree to which someone or something (especially a sensory organ or tissue) is able to respond to sensory stimuli.

Example Sentences

I apologize if I offended your sensibilities, but that’s the truth of the matter.

There is no way more sure of rousing the sensibilities of a commercial people, than by touching their pockets.

The high sensibility of the divided ring electrometer renders this test really very easy, as not more than from ten to twenty cells are required; […]

However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers […]

Word Forms

• sensibilities

Synonyms for sensibility

Depending on context, synonyms include susceptibilities, sensitiveness, sensitivity.

Antonyms for sensibility

Common opposites include insensibility, nonsensibility, unsensibility.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensitive, intelligent, sensation, awareness.

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