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sensibility
(,s/E/ns/@/'b/I/l/I/t/i/ )

noun (n)

  • mental responsiveness and awareness(noun.cognition)
    Synonym:
    aesthesia, esthesia
    Antonym:
    insensibility
    source: wordnet30
  • refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions(noun.feeling)
    Example:
    Cruelty offended his sensibility.
    source: wordnet30
  • (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation(noun.cognition)
    source: wordnet30
  • The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.(noun)
    source: webster1913
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