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

1. noun. The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation

   "sensitivity to pain"

   Synonyms: sensitiveness, sensitivity

6. noun. mental responsiveness and awareness

   Synonyms: aesthesia, esthesia

7. noun. refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions

   "cruelty offended his sensibility"

Synonyms

sensitiveness, sensitivity, aesthesia, esthesia

Common word forms

sensibilities

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