Sensibility

Definition of the noun sensibility

What does sensibility mean as a name of something?

noun - plural: sensibilities

1. mental responsiveness and awareness
   • lexical domain: Cognitive Processes - nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
   • synonyms of sensibility: aesthesia / esthesia
   • antonym of sensibility: insensibility
   • more generic word: consciousness = an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation
2. refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
   • example: cruelty offended his sensibility
   • lexical domain: Feelings - nouns denoting feelings and emotions
   • more generic words: sensitiveness / sensitivity = sensitivity to emotional feelings
   • more specific words:
     • perceptiveness / perceptivity / insight = a feeling of understanding
     • sensuousness = a sensuous feeling
3. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
   • domain: physiology
   • lexical domain: Cognitive Processes - nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
   • synonyms of sensibility: sensitiveness / sensitivity
   • more generic terms: sensation / sense / sensory faculty / sentience / sentiency = the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
   • more specific words:
     • acuteness = a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed
     • hypersensitivity = extreme sensitivity
     • responsiveness / reactivity = responsive to stimulation
     • exteroception = sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
     • interoception = sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body
     • photosensitivity / radiosensitivity = sensitivity to the action of radiant energy

Alternative definition of the noun sensibility

noun

1. The ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another
2. [chiefly in plural] An acute awareness or feeling

Music

"Sensibility": 《Sensibility》는 백지영의 7번째 정규 음반이다. 이 음반에 수록된 곡 중 〈이리 와〉와 〈밤새도록〉은 19세 이상 이용가로 지정되어 미성년자들은 이 노래를 들을 수 없다.

• artist: Baek Ji-young
• released on 13 November 2008 (6 years ago)

Miscellanea

Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another. This concept emerged in eighteenth-century Britain, and was closely associated with studies of sense perception as the means through which knowledge is gathered. It also became associated with sentimental moral philosophy.

Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for Sensibility

Click on a title to look inside that book (if available):

Science Abstracts (1920)

Physics. Section A.

Radio- sensibility is a function of the cell which is being radiated by the same quality and quantity ...

Education in Morality (2005)

by J. Mark Halstead, Terence H. McLaughlin

To call this an education of character seems appropriate, for although the sensibility is a faculty of reason answerable to plain...

The Aesthetic Impulse (2014)

by Malcolm Ross

Sensibility is a vital faculty affecting the quality and effectiveness of everyone's life – it is not merely the distinguishing characteristic of the cultured classes or of artists. The faculty of feeling is responsible for the basic ability to distinguish formal ...

Practice and Realization (2012)

Studies in Kant’s Moral Philosophy by Nathan Rotenstreich

to decide whether an action whichis possibleinthe worldof sensibility is a caseunder therule. Itis practical judgment which applies what the rule asserts universally or inabstracto ...

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (2008)

by Chris Baldick

sensibility An important 18th-century term designating a kind of sensitivity or responsiveness that is both aesthetic and moral, showing a capacity to feel both for others' ...

Dictionary of Literature in English (2002)

by Neil King, Sarah King

See sensibility, age of. sensibility, age of: a term that has been used to define a period of literature from ...

The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms (2006)

by Peter Childs, Roger Fowler

Sensibility 215 values and morals. But poets and critics in England never accepted the total primacy of reason, and they were very willing to take over a moral and aesthetic doctrine which was in reaction against a too great demand on reason.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (2006)

by David Scott Kastan

Yet this appellation may be anachronistic, a retrospective application of the binary opposition between masculinity and femininity that emerged after the turn against sensibility. To see Harley, for example, as feminine requires that we impose ...

The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1878)

A Record of the Positive Effects of Drugs Upon the Healthy Human Organism by Timothy Field Allen

Above the elbow the tactile sensibility is much less affected. On the left fingers and forearm, the pressure of the upper point only of the aesthesiometer is perceived. Anterior surface of left arm, 100 mm. Tactile sensibility of lower ...

Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences Part One

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Sensibility,. Irritability,. and. Reproduction. § 218 (1) The first is theprocess of the living being inside itself. In that processit makesa spliton itsown self,and reduces its corporeitytoits object or its inorganic nature. This corporeity, asan aggregate ...

Online dictionaries and encyclopedias with entries for Sensibility

Click on a label to prioritize search results according to that topic:

Photos about Sensibility

Click on an item to view that photo:

View more pictures about Sense And Sensibility.

If you need related images for an article or a report, you can download stock photos:
More...

Video language resources about Sensibility

Click on an item to play that video:

See also the pronunciation examples of Sensibility!

Quotes about Sensibility

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. (Robert Delaunay)
more quotes about sensibility...

Scrabble value of S₁E₁N₁S₁I₁B₃I₁L₁I₁T₁Y₄

The value of this 11-letter word is 16 points. It is included in the first and second editions of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.

Share this page

Next...

Go to the usage examples of Sensibility to see it in context!