SENSIBILITY
\sˌɛnsəbˈɪlɪti], \sˌɛnsəbˈɪlɪti], \s_ˌɛ_n_s_ə_b_ˈɪ_l_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of SENSIBILITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility"
By Princeton University
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refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
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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.
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Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
By Oddity Software
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The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
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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.
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Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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State or quality of being sensible: actual feeling: capacity of feeling: susceptibility: acuteness of feeling: delicacy.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The faculty of receiving and transmitting impressions, and having the consciousness of them. It thus includes three secondary properties, impressibility, (F.) impressionability, transmissibility, and perceptibility. Bichat defines it as the property possessed by living bodies, of receiving impressions, whether the individual be conscious of them or not. In the former case, where conscious, he calls the sensibility animal: in the latter, where not, he terms it organic. This last is common to vegetables and animals, and presides over nutrition, absorption, exhalation, secretion, &c. The other does not exist in vegetables: it is the origin of the sensations-olfaction, vision, gustation, audition, thirst, hunger, pain, &c. There are few parts of the animal body, but what are sensible- if not in health-in disease. The free extremities of the hair and nails, and the epidermis, are not so. See Insensibility.
By Robley Dunglison
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Capacity for perception or feeling.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [French ] Quality or condition of being sensible; capacity to feel or perceive the capacity of the soul to exercise or to be the subject of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; also, the capacity for any specific feeling or emotion acuteness of sensation or of perception ; quick emotion or sympathy; — that quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy.
