Definition of sensibility

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Sensibility (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..

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Acute :: Acute (a.) Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure..
Sentimentalize :: Sentimentalize (v. i.) To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility..
Ingratitude :: Ingratitude (n.) Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness..
Cocaine :: Cocaine (n.) A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain..
Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..
Insensibility :: Insensibility (n.) Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.
Perception :: Perception (n.) The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility..
Frost :: Frost (v. i.) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
Remorseless :: Remorseless (a.) Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless..
Thermopile :: Thermopile (n.) An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat. It is composed of alternate bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two metals having different capacities for the conduction of heat, connected with an astatic galvanometer, which is very sensibly affected by the electric current induced in the system of bars when exposed even to the feeblest degrees of heat..
Sensibility :: Sensibility (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..
Sensible :: Sensible (n.) Sensation; sensibility.
Passibility :: Passibility (n.) The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.
Cold-blooded :: Cold-blooded (a.) Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
Stupose :: Stupor (n.) Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
Sensitive :: Sensitive (a.) Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected..
Sensibility :: Sensibility (n.) Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
Torpor :: Torpor (n.) Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness..
Sentimental :: Sentimental (a.) Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.
Stupidity :: Stupidity (n.) The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
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