sensibility
Emotions or feelings arising from or relating to aesthetic or moral standards,…Emotions or feelings arising from or relating to aesthetic or moral standards, especially those which are sensitive and thus likely to be hurt or offended.
» I can't compete with the delicate sensibility of Tom.
Meaning
12 senses(countable, in the plural, often, uncountable)Emotions or feelings arising from or relating to aesthetic or moral standards, especially those which are sensitive and thus likely to be hurt or offended.
I apologize if I offended your sensibilities, but that’s the truth of the matter.
(uncountable)The ability to feel, perceive, or sense; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity; also, the degree to which someone or something (especially a sensory organ or tissue) is able to respond to sensory stimuli.
Sensibilität, Empfindlichkeit, Empfindungsvermögen
(uncountable)The quality of being easily affected by external forces or stimuli; also, of a measuring instrument: the quality of being able to detect small changes in the environment.
чу́ткостьčútkostʹ
(uncountable)Keen sensitivity to matters of creative expression or feeling; artistic or emotional awareness.
Sensibilität, Empfindsamkeit
(uncountable)The ability to perceive or sense as opposed to the ability to understand; also, in the philosophy of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804): emotion or feeling as opposed to the will.
(historical, uncountable)Synonym of Empfindsamkeit.
Keen sensitivity to matters of creative expression or feeling; artistic or emotional awareness.
(archaic, countable, specifically, uncountable)Affected or excessive artistic or emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional; overemotionality.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)Awareness; also, understanding.
mental responsiveness and awareness
(archaic, countable, uncountable)The capacity of something to be perceived by the senses; perceptibility.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)Of a plant or one of its parts: the ability to move in response to a stimulus.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)An emotional sense or understanding of something.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A sign or token of appreciation or gratitude.
Examples
8 sentencesI can't compete with the delicate sensibility of Tom.
Her house is a reflection of her eclectic sensibilities.
This is sure to offend the sensibilities of any decent human being.
What is artistic sensibility?
Their sensibilities are skewered.
Translations
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Origin
From Late Middle English sensibilite (“physical ability to sense or perceive; sensitivityFrom Late Middle English sensibilite (“physical ability to sense or perceive; sensitivity to pain; type of perception by a sense organ; perception, understanding; image imprinted on the mind during perception; (philosophy) capacity of the soul to receive information from the senses, perceptibility; (in the plural) the senses”), from Middle French sensibilité and Old French sensibilité (“characteristic or state of being capable of sensation”) (modern French sensibilité), and from their etymon Late Latin sēnsibilitās (“intelligence; perception, sensation; sensitiveness; meaning or sense of words”), from Latin sēnsibilis (“detectable; perceptible, sensible”) (from sentiō (“to perceive with the senses, feel, sense; to be aware or sensible of; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to perceive; to think”)) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives denoting a capacity or worth of being acted upon)) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting states of being). By surface analysis, sensible + -ity (suffix forming nouns).
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Forms
plural: sensibilities| Singular | sensibility |
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Synonyms
6 synonyms- mental responsiveness and awareness:esthesiaaesthesia
- (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation:sensitivitysensitiveness
Antonyms
3 antonymsWord family
11 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable