Synonyms 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.

   Synonyms:
   feeling, impressibility, sensitiveness, susceptibility

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

   Preposition:
   The sensibility of the organism to atmospheric changes.

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1. sensibility

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

   Antonyms:
   insensibility, insusceptibility, coarseness, unimpressibleness

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1. sensibility, esthesia, aesthesianoun

   mental responsiveness and awareness

   Synonyms:
   aesthesia, sensitiveness, sensitivity, esthesia

   Antonyms:
   insensibility

2. sensibilitynoun

   refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions

   "cruelty offended his sensibility"

   Synonyms:
   aesthesia, sensitiveness, sensitivity, esthesia

   Antonyms:
   insensibility

3. sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibilitynoun

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

   "sensitivity to pain"

   Synonyms:
   sensitivity, sensitiveness, aesthesia, esthesia, predisposition

   Antonyms:
   insensibility

Matched Categories

1. • Physiology
   • Sense
   • Sensitivity

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1. sensibilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   feeling, sensitiveness

2. sensibilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   delicacy of feeling, tender feeling, quick emotion

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1. sensibilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   susceptibility, sensitiveness, delicacy, feeling, emotion

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1. List of paraphrases for "sensibility":

   sensitivity, susceptibility, tenderness

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1. Remy de Gourmont:

   Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

2. Henry James:

   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.

3. 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.

4. Bill Murray:

   You know what I always thought was funny as a little kid isn't necessarily the same as what's funny now. Things change and the times change, so it's important for me to figure it out, i think the most important thing is that it's best for the other person. I thought about and that it's not best for the other person, doesn't matter what happens for me. And that gave me a great deal of comfort and relaxation because your brain doesn't operate well when you're in the unknown, when you're thinking like,' well, how can I be so... how can I misperceive ? How can I be so inaccurate and so insensitive,' when you think you're being sensitive to some sensibility that you've had for a long time.

5. 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.