Sensibility(n.)
- The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
Sensibility(n.)
- 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.
Sensibility(n.)
- Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
Sensibility(n.)
- 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.
Sensible(a.)
- Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.
Sensible(a.)
- Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.
Sensible(a.)
- Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.
Sensible(a.)
- Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.
Sensible(a.)
- Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.
Sensible(a.)
- Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.