Sensibility - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˌsensəˈbɪlətɪ|
Brit.
|ˌsensɪˈbɪlɪtɪ|
noun
- mental responsiveness and awareness
- refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
- refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
cruelty offended his sensibility
- (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation (syn: sensitiveness, sensitivity)Extra examples
The writer is remembered most for his sensibility.
She's a woman of poetic sensibility.
He had great sensibility of censure.
It wounded her delicate sensibilities to be addressed in such a vulgar manner.
Avoid using words that might offend someone's racial or moral sensibilities.
He is without a political agenda as he is without a coherent moral sensibility.
The hand or foot is asleep in case of numbness or diminution of sensibility.
Word forms
noun
singular: sensibility
plural: sensibilities
singular: sensibility
plural: sensibilities
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