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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Insensibility :: Insensibility (n.) The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates..
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..
Stupor :: Stupor (n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
Insensate :: Insensate (a.) Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.
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..
Ecstasy :: Ecstasy (n.) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected..
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..
Monopathy :: Monopathy (n.) Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function.
Torpor :: Torpor (n.) Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness..
Stoicity :: Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
Diaphemetric :: Diaphemetric (a.) Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses..
Induration :: Induration (n.) Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling..
Obtunder :: Obtunder (n.) That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility..
Stupidity :: Stupidity (n.) The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
Sensibility :: Sensibility (n.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive..
Benumb :: Benumb (a.) To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold..
Perception :: Perception (n.) The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility..
Inertness :: Inertness (n.) Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
Coma :: Coma (n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.
Iron :: Iron (n.) Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.;.
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