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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Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
Hyperaesthesia :: Hyperaesthesia (n.) A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it..
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.
Carus :: Carus (n.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
Induration :: Induration (n.) Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling..
Stupidity :: Stupidity (n.) The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
Sensible :: Sensible (n.) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
Photographometer :: Photographometer (n.) An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.
Tender-hearted :: Tender-hearted (a.) Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive.
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..
Anaesthetic :: Anaesthetic (a.) Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anaesthetic effect or operation..
Searedness :: Searedness (n.) The state of being seared or callous; insensibility.
Susception :: Susceptible (a.) Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart..
Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor..
Sentimentalize :: Sentimentalize (v. i.) To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility..
Indurate :: Indurate (a.) Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
Esthesiometer :: Esthesiometer (n.) An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered..
Sensibility :: Sensibility (n.) Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
Analgesia :: Analgesia (n.) Absence of sensibility to pain.
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