sensibility
IPA: sɛnsɪbˈɪɫɪti
noun
- The ability to sense, feel or perceive; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity.
- Emotional or artistic awareness; keen sensitivity to matters of feeling or creative expression.
- (now rare, archaic) Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional.
- (in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling.
- (obsolete) The capacity to be perceived by the senses.
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Examples of "sensibility" in Sentences
- To qualify the term sensibility with any adjective inevitably means losing the denotation that sensible things can be the road to meaning.
- "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."
- 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 [...]
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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