Synonyms for sensibility
ˌsɛn səˈbɪl ɪ tisen·si·bil·i·ty

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1. sensibility

   Sensibility in the philosophical sense, denotes the capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will. (Compare synonyms for SENSATION.) In popular use sensibility denotes sometimes capacity of feeling of any kind; as, sensibility to heat or cold; sometimes, a peculiar readiness to be the subject of feeling, especially of the higher feelings; as, the sensibility of the artist or the poet; a person of great or fine sensibility. Sensitiveness denotes an especial delicacy of sensibility, ready to be excited by the slightest cause, as displayed, for instance, in the "sensitive-plant." Susceptibility is rather a capacity to take up, receive, and, as it were, to contain feeling, so that a person of great susceptibility is capable of being not only readily but deeply moved; sensitiveness is more superficial, susceptibility more pervading. Thus, in physics, the sensitiveness of a magnetic needle is the ease with which it may be deflected, as by another magnet; its susceptibility is the degree to which it can be magnetized by a given magnetic force or the amount of magnetism it will hold. So a person of great sensitiveness is quickly and keenly affected by any external influence, as by music, pathos, or ridicule, while a person of great susceptibility is not only touched, but moved to his inmost soul.

   Synonyms:
   feeling, impressibility, sensitiveness, susceptibility

   Antonyms:
   coldness, deadness, hardness, insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness

   Preposition:
   The sensibility of the organism to atmospheric changes.

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1. sensibility

   Synonyms:
   susceptibility, delicacy, feeling, refinement, impressibleness, sensitiveness

   Antonyms:
   insensibility, insusceptibility, coarseness, unimpressibleness

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1. sensibility, esthesia, aesthesianoun

   mental responsiveness and awareness

   Synonyms:
   aesthesia, sensitiveness, sensitivity, esthesia

   Antonyms:
   insensibility

2. sensibilitynoun

   refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions

   "cruelty offended his sensibility"

   Synonyms:
   aesthesia, sensitiveness, sensitivity, esthesia

   Antonyms:
   insensibility

3. sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibilitynoun

   (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation

   "sensitivity to pain"

   Synonyms:
   sensitivity, sensitiveness, aesthesia, esthesia, predisposition

   Antonyms:
   insensibility

Matched Categories

1. • Physiology
   • Sense
   • Sensitivity

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1. sensibilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   feeling, sensitiveness

2. sensibilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   delicacy of feeling, tender feeling, quick emotion

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1. sensibilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   susceptibility, sensitiveness, delicacy, feeling, emotion

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1. List of paraphrases for "sensibility":

   sensitivity, susceptibility, tenderness

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1. Wallace Stevens:

   Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

2. Coleridge:

   It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

3. Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2-10-05:

   The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

4. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand:

   Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.

5. Kaushik Basu:

   Our agriculture regulation needs change, but the new laws will end up serving corporate interests more than farmers. Hats off to the sensibility moral strength of India’s farmers.