1. the ability to feel or perceive.
2. keen intellectual perception: the sensibility of a painter to color.
3. mental or emotional responsiveness toward something, such as the feelings of another.
4. receptiveness to impression, whether pleasant or unpleasant; acuteness of feeling. often used in the plural: "the sufferings of the cuban people shocked our sensibilities” ( george F. Kennan).
5. refined awareness and appreciation in matters of feeling.
6. the quality of being affected by changes in the environment.

1. the ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another
2. an acute awareness or feeling

1. the quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
2. 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; ; -- often used in the plural.
3. experience of sensation; actual feeling.
4. that quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy.

1. the state or property of being sensible or capable of sensation; capability of sensation.
2. mental receptivity or susceptibility in general.
3. specifically, the capacity of exercising or being the subject of emotion or feeling in a restricted sense; capacity for the higher or more refined feelings.
4. in a still narrower sense, peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; unusual delicacy or keenness of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; sensitiveness: in this sense used frequently in the plural.
5. the property, as in an instrument, of responding quickly to very slight changes of condition; delicacy; sensitiveness (the better word in this use).
6. sensation.
7. feeling; appreciation; sense; realization.
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1. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
2. refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
3. mental responsiveness and awareness