Antonyms for sensibility
ˌsɛn səˈbɪl ɪ tisen·si·bil·i·ty

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1. 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.

   Antonyms:
   coldness, deadness, hardness, insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness

   Synonyms:
   feeling, impressibility, sensitiveness, susceptibility

   Preposition:
   The sensibility of the organism to atmospheric changes.

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1. sensibility

   Antonyms:
   insensibility, insusceptibility, coarseness, unimpressibleness

   Synonyms:
   susceptibility, delicacy, feeling, refinement, impressibleness, sensitiveness

Matched Categories

1. • Physiology
   • Sense
   • Sensitivity

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sensibility, esthesia, aesthesianoun

   mental responsiveness and awareness

   Antonyms:
   insensibility

   Synonyms:
   aesthesia, sensitiveness, sensitivity, esthesia

2. sensibilitynoun

   refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions

   "cruelty offended his sensibility"

   Antonyms:
   insensibility

   Synonyms:
   aesthesia, sensitiveness, sensitivity, esthesia

3. sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibilitynoun

   (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation

   "sensitivity to pain"

   Antonyms:
   insensibility

   Synonyms:
   sensitivity, sensitiveness, aesthesia, esthesia, predisposition

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1. sensibilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   susceptibility, sensitiveness, delicacy, feeling, emotion

How to use sensibility in a sentence?

1. Silvio Berlusconi:

   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.

2. William Ellery Channing:

   No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

3. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand:

   Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.

4. Julie Andrews:

   I think my natural sensibility tries to create a light around Julie Andrews in 1964 that protects me from digesting that title.

5. Roopal Patel:

   He respected the codes and the heritage of Louis Vuitton, which is very important for a house of this nature, but he infused his own sensibility and his own DNA into what we saw.

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