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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     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.
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              The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of
              sensibility.                          --Burke.
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              His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of
              patriotism than of wounded pride.     --Marshall.
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     3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
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              This adds greatly to my sensibility.  --Burke.
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     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.
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     Syn: Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See {Taste}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  129 Moby Thesaurus words for "sensibility":
     acuity, acumen, acuteness, adaptability, affectibility, affection,
     affectivity, agreeability, amenability, apperception, appreciation,
     appreciation of differences, appreciativeness, artistic judgment,
     astuteness, awareness, bendability, cogency, cognition, cognizance,
     connoisseurship, consciousness, critical niceness, criticalness,
     delicacy, discernment, discriminating taste, discriminatingness,
     discrimination, discriminativeness, ductibility, ductility,
     elasticity, emotion, emotions, extendibility, extensibility,
     facility, farseeingness, farsightedness, fastidiousness, feel,
     feeling, feelings, fictility, fine palate, finesse, flexibility,
     flexility, flexuousness, foresight, foresightedness, formativeness,
     give, heart, impressibility, impressionability, incisiveness,
     insight, judiciousness, keenness, limberness, limen, litheness,
     longheadedness, longsightedness, making distinctions, malleability,
     mindfulness, moldability, niceness of distinction, nicety, noesis,
     note, notice, openness to sensation, palate, penetration,
     perceptibility, perception, perceptiveness, percipience,
     perspicaciousness, perspicacity, perspicuity, perspicuousness,
     physical sensibility, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, providence,
     readiness of feeling, realization, receptiveness, receptivity,
     recognition, refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement,
     responsiveness, sagaciousness, sagacity, selectiveness,
     sensation level, sense, sensibilities, sensibleness, sensitiveness,
     sensitivity, sentience, sentiency, sentiments, sequacity,
     springiness, submissiveness, subtlety, suppleness, susceptibility,
     susceptivity, tact, tactfulness, taste, tensileness, tensility,
     threshold of sensation, tractability, tractility, trenchancy,
     willowiness
  
  

















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