Dictionary Entry
sensibility
sensibility is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
- 2noun
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; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural.
- 3noun
Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
- 4noun
That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.
- 5noun
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
"sensitivity to pain"
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- 6noun
mental responsiveness and awareness
- 7noun
refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
"cruelty offended his sensibility"
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