Definition of "sensibility"

sensibility

/ˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪti/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural sensibilities
1. The ability to sense, feel or perceive; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity.
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  The high sensibility of the divided ring electrometer renders this test really very easy […].
  2011, William Thomson, Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism, page 204
2. Emotional or artistic awareness; keen sensitivity to matters of feeling or creative expression.
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  By poetic ethic I am speaking about the intention to act on, and incorporate into a narrative configuration, values and beliefs that promote a poetic ontology and a poetic sensibility.
  2015, Kathleen T. Galvin, Monica Prendergast, Poetic Inquiry II, page 266
3. (now rare, archaic) Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional.
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  People of sensibility have seldom good tempers.
  1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792
4. (in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling.
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  However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers[.]
  2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, page 11
5. (obsolete) The capacity to be perceived by the senses.

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sensibility

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