sensibility
Other forms: sensibilities
Sensibility is your ability to feel or be aware of something. Your artistic sensibility might allow you to understand even the most complex work of art.
Sensibility often refers to your ability to respond to emotions or to appreciate artistic works — things that you sense rather than analyze logically. Your poetic sensibility might allow you to choose exactly the right word to create a particular tone when you’re writing. Sensibility can also refer to your sensitivity to good or bad impressions — it’s sort of like your feelings. Used in this way, the word is often plural. Your brother’s thoughtless remarks may offend your sensibilities.
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mental responsiveness and awareness
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Antonyms:
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insensibility
a lack of sensibility
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consciousness
an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation
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insensibility
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(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
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synonyms:
sensitiveness, sensitivity
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types:
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acuteness
a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed
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hypersensitivity
extreme sensitivity
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reactivity, responsiveness
responsive to stimulation
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exteroception
sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
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interoception
sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body
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photosensitivity, radiosensitivity
sensitivity to the action of radiant energy
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excitability, irritability
excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part
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sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense
the ability to see; the visual faculty
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cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch, touch modality
the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
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audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing
the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
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gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste
the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
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olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell
the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
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proprioception
the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts
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somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis
the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
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sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency
the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
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refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions“cruelty offended his sensibility”
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types:
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insight, perceptiveness, perceptivity
a feeling of understanding
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sensuousness
a sensuous feeling
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type of:
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sensitiveness, sensitivity
sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
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insight, perceptiveness, perceptivity
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Hope and her grandmother move to a small town to run a diner, and Hope gets involved in the local mayoral race.
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