Definition of sensibility

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Sensibility (n.) That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer..

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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..
Torpor :: Torpor (n.) Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness..
Monopathy :: Monopathy (n.) Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function.
Electro-muscular :: Electro-muscular (a.) Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it..
Benumb :: Benumb (a.) To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold..
Sensive :: Sensive (a.) Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.
Stone :: Stone (n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone..
Stun :: Stun (v. t.) To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing..
Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
Remorseless :: Remorseless (a.) Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless..
Obtunder :: Obtunder (n.) That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility..
Senseless :: Senseless (a.) Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable..
Carus :: Carus (n.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
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.
Susception :: Susceptible (a.) Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart..
Visceral :: Visceral (a.) Fig.: Having deep sensibility.
Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..
Hyperaesthesia :: Hyperaesthesia (n.) A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it..
Passibility :: Passibility (n.) The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.
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