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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Visceral :: Visceral (a.) Fig.: Having deep sensibility.
Sentimental :: Sentimental (a.) Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.
Susceptible :: Susceptibility (n.) Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness..
Insensibility :: Insensibility (n.) Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.
Analgesia :: Analgesia (n.) Absence of sensibility to pain.
Carus :: Carus (n.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
Sensibility :: Sensibility (n.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive..
Tender-hearted :: Tender-hearted (a.) Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive.
Photographometer :: Photographometer (n.) An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.
Torpor :: Torpor (n.) Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness..
Stupose :: Stupor (n.) Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
Diaphemetric :: Diaphemetric (a.) Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses..
Sentimentalize :: Sentimentalize (v. i.) To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility..
Thickskin :: Thickskin (n.) A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard..
Frost :: Frost (v. i.) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
Hypersensibility :: Hypersensibility (n.) See Hyperaesthesia.
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..
Coenesthesis :: Coenesthesis (n.) Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system..
Perception :: Perception (n.) The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility..
Indurate :: Indurate (v. t.) To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
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