Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪti/
sensibility
- The ability to sense, feel or perceive; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity. [from 15th c.]
- 2011, William Thomson, Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism, p. 204:
- The high sensibility of the divided ring electrometer renders this test really very easy […].
- 2011, William Thomson, Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism, p. 204:
- Emotional or artistic awareness; keen sensitivity to matters of feeling or creative expression. [from 17th c.]
- 2015, Kathleen T. Galvin, Monica Prendergast, Poetic Inquiry II, p. 266:
- By poetic ethic I am speaking about the intention to act on, and incorporate into a narrative configuration, values and beliefs that promote a poetic ontology and a poetic sensibility.
- 2015, Kathleen T. Galvin, Monica Prendergast, Poetic Inquiry II, p. 266:
- (now, rare, archaic) Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional. [from 18th c.]
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 106:
- People of sensibility have seldom good tempers.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 106:
- (in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling. [from 18th c.]
- I apologize if I offended your sensibilities, but that's the truth of the matter.
- (obsolete) The capacity to be perceived by the senses. [15th–17th c.]
- Russian: чуткость
- Russian: чувства
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