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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The ability to feel or perceive.
  2. n. Keen intellectual perception: the sensibility of a painter to color.
  3. n. Mental or emotional responsiveness toward something, such as the feelings of another.
  4. n. Receptiveness to impression, whether pleasant or unpleasant; acuteness of feeling. Often used in the plural: "The sufferings of the Cuban people shocked our sensibilities” ( George F. Kennan).
  5. n. Refined awareness and appreciation in matters of feeling.
  6. n. The quality of being affected by changes in the environment.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state or property of being sensible or capable of sensation; capability of sensation.
  2. n. Mental receptivity or susceptibility in general.
  3. n. Specifically, the capacity of exercising or being the subject of emotion or feeling in a restricted sense; capacity for the higher or more refined feelings.
  4. n. In a still narrower sense, peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; unusual delicacy or keenness of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; sensitiveness: in this sense used frequently in the plural.
  5. n. The property, as in an instrument, of responding quickly to very slight changes of condition; delicacy; sensitiveness (the better word in this use).
  6. n. Sensation.
  7. n. Feeling; appreciation; sense; realization.
  8. n. Synonyms and Taste, Sensibility. See taste.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another
  2. n. An acute awareness or feeling

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Physiol.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
  2. n. 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; ; -- often used in the plural.
  3. n. Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
  4. n. That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
  2. n. refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
  3. n. mental responsiveness and awareness

Examples

  • “These ocular spectra are of four kinds: 1st, Such as are owing to a less sensibility of a defined part of the retina; or _spectra from defect of sensibility. _ 2d, Such as are owing to a greater sensibility of a defined part of the retina; or _spectra from excess of sensibility_. 3d, Such as resemble their object in its colour as well as form; which may be termed”

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

  • “To qualify the term sensibility with any adjective inevitably means losing the denotation that sensible things can be the road to meaning.”

    Inhabiting the Church: a Catholic response

  • “We apply the term sensibility to the receptivity of the mind for impressions, in so far as it is in some way affected; and, on the other hand, we call the faculty of spontaneously producing representations, or the spontaneity of cognition, understanding.”

    The Critique of Pure Reason

  • “And while Gary Groth may not be the cuddliest messenger in the world (on this or any other subject), one can rest assured that his sensibility is as curatorial as it [...]”

    Quote of the day

  • “But if his sensibility is adolescent, it is in the best sense: his anarchic entertainments exist somewhere between Alfred Jarry and Terry and the Pirates.”

    GreenCine Daily: Interview. Paul Verhoeven.

  • “I ask you, how do you expect a woman to keep up what you call her sensibility when this sort of thing has happened to her about three times a week ever since she was seventeen?”

    Overruled

  • “The constant form of this receptivity, which we call sensibility, is a necessary condition of all relations in which objects can be intuited as existing without us, and when abstraction of these objects is made, is a pure intuition, to which we give the name of space.”

    The Critique of Pure Reason

  • “There may be an increasingly shared "sensibility" among "global" writers, but finally the way in which that sensibility is embodied in the available resources of the writer's medium -- the particular language in which he/she writes -- can't simply be ignored.”

    Translated Texts

  • “To my mind, it just feels like those literary bigwigs who had one or two SF novels amongst their output, but who somehow escape being frowned upon as mere SF writers, aren’t really that different in sensibility from a hell of a lot of, say, New Wave writers who had or have one or two non-SF novels in their output.”

    Archive 2005-03-01

  • “Google argues they drive traffic to sites, but the whole Google sensibility is inimical to traditional brand loyalty.”

    ‘Google encourages promiscuity’ – WSJ

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  • brtom Madam, it is impossible for me to suspect a man of Mr. Snake’s sensibility and discernment.
    Sheridan, School for Scandal Jan 5, 2008

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