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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Quickness :: Quickness (n.) Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.
Sensive :: Sensive (a.) Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.
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..
Sensible :: Sensible (n.) Sensation; sensibility.
Indurate :: Indurate (a.) Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
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..
Induration :: Induration (n.) Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling..
Iron :: Iron (n.) Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.;.
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.
Hypersensibility :: Hypersensibility (n.) See Hyperaesthesia.
Stupefy :: Stupefy (v. t.) To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
Inertness :: Inertness (n.) Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
Thermopile :: Thermopile (n.) An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat. It is composed of alternate bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two metals having different capacities for the conduction of heat, connected with an astatic galvanometer, which is very sensibly affected by the electric current induced in the system of bars when exposed even to the feeblest degrees of heat..
Anaesthesia :: Anaesthesia (n.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic.
Thickskin :: Thickskin (n.) A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard..
Stoicity :: Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
Inapathy :: Inapathy (n.) Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy.
Sensible :: Sensible (n.) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
Passibility :: Passibility (n.) The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.
Analgesia :: Analgesia (n.) Absence of sensibility to pain.
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