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Synonyms for sensibility
ˌsɛn səˈbɪl ɪ tisen·si·bil·i·ty
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, susceptibilityAntonyms:
coldness, deadness, hardness, insensibility, numbness, unconsciousnessPreposition:
The sensibility of the organism to atmospheric changes.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
sensibility
Synonyms:
susceptibility, delicacy, feeling, refinement, impressibleness, sensitivenessAntonyms:
insensibility, insusceptibility, coarseness, unimpressibleness
Princeton's WordNet
sensibility, esthesia, aesthesianoun
mental responsiveness and awareness
Synonyms:
aesthesia, sensitiveness, sensitivity, esthesiaAntonyms:
insensibilitysensibilitynoun
refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
"cruelty offended his sensibility"
Synonyms:
aesthesia, sensitiveness, sensitivity, esthesiaAntonyms:
insensibilitysensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibilitynoun
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
"sensitivity to pain"
Synonyms:
sensitivity, sensitiveness, aesthesia, esthesia, predispositionAntonyms:
insensibility
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
sensibilitynoun
Synonyms:
feeling, sensitivenesssensibilitynoun
Synonyms:
delicacy of feeling, tender feeling, quick emotion
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
sensibilitynoun
Synonyms:
susceptibility, sensitiveness, delicacy, feeling, emotion
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List of paraphrases for "sensibility":
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#2935 | feeling | |
#6458 | sensitivity | |
#16448 | refinement | |
#17794 | susceptibility | |
#26274 | sensibility | |
#26713 | tenderness | |
#43200 | delicacy | |
#46618 | predisposition | |
#152198 | sensitiveness |
How to use sensibility in a sentence?
My mother used poetry and the arts as a thermometer—if I cried, it meant my heart had not grown cold, my sensibility was alive and well.
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.
I'm sorry that a few words dragged out of the general context, badly interpreted, have offended the sensibility of my Arab and Muslim friends, an artificial controversy has blown up based on nothing and fed by irresponsible comments from the opposition.
To me, that's what made them iconic — that they had touched on the pulse of something that, in turn, harmonized... the human sensibility and allowed us to empathize beyond our own personal experience.
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.
Translations for sensibility
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- SensibilitätGerman
- sensibilidadSpanish
- 感覚Japanese
- sensibilidadePortuguese
- чувствительностьRussian
- khả năng cảm thụVietnamese
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