Word
Sensibility
How many syllables?
5 Syllables
How it's divided?
sen-si-bil-i-ty
Definition
- n. - The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of
sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
- n. - 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.
- n. - Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
- n. - 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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