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NOUN (3)

1. mental responsiveness and awareness;
[syn: sensibility, esthesia, aesthesia]

2. refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions;
- Example: "cruelty offended his sensibility"

3. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation;
- Example: "sensitivity to pain"
[syn: sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sensibility \Sen`si*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Sensibilities. [Cf. F. sensibilit['e], LL. sensibilitas.] 1. (Physiol.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. "Sensibilities so fine!" --Cowper. [1913 Webster] The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. --Burke. [1913 Webster] His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. --Marshall. [1913 Webster] 3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling. [1913 Webster] This adds greatly to my sensibility. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 4. 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. [1913 Webster] Syn: Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See Taste. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sensibility n 1: mental responsiveness and awareness [syn: sensibility, esthesia, aesthesia] [ant: insensibility] 2: refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility" 3: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain" [syn: sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility]