sensibility

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  1. noun The ability to feel or perceive.
  2. noun Keen intellectual perception: the sensibility of a painter to color.
  3. noun Mental or emotional responsiveness toward something, such as the feelings of another.

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  • The pleasure I enjoyed yesterday in feasting in good company, and in a variety of other agreeables, at the nuptial anniversary of our dear and happy friends, Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Burr, has deprived me of that common share of sensibility which is generally distributed through the days of the year, and rather destroyed the equilibrium. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
  • I will never forget the marks of attachment which you have given; my sensibility is your warrant; I am never half-and- half a friend, and I shall always be wholly so of Brother Voltaire.--WILHELMINA Many compliments to Madame Denis. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • On the contrary, all his sensibility has been awakened in receiving such repeated and unequivocal proofs of sincere regards from all his countrymen With respect to myself, I sometimes think the arrangement is not quite as it ought to have been; that I, who had much rather be at home, should occupy a place with which a great many younger and gayer women would be prodigiously pleased. —  Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2
  • Although her prose verges on annoying, her sensibility is appealing.
  • I didn't feel like my sensibility was very evident. —  GreenCine Daily
 

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  1. from Middle English sensibilitee, from Old French sensibilite, French sensibilité = Provencal sensibilitat = Spanish sensibilidad = Portuguese sensibilidade = Italian sensibilità, sensibility, from Late Latin sensibilita(t-)s, the sense or meaning of words, sensibility, from sensibilis, sensible: see sensible.
 

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/sɛnsɪˈbɪləti/
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