sensibility 音标拼音: [s
, ɛnsɪb'ɪlɪti]
n . 感性,感觉,情感
感性,感觉,情感
sensibility 灵敏度; 灵敏性
sensibility 感测度 感知度
sensibility n 1 :
mental responsiveness and awareness [
synonym : {
sensibility },
{
esthesia }, {
aesthesia }] [
ant : {
insensibility }]
2 :
refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions ;
"
cruelty offended his sensibility "
3 : (
physiology )
responsiveness to external stimuli ;
the faculty of sensation ; "
sensitivity to pain " [
synonym : {
sensitivity },
{
sensitiveness }, {
sensibility }]
Sensibility \
Sen `
si *
bil "
i *
ty \,
n .;
pl . {
Sensibilities }. [
Cf .
F .
sensibilit ['
e ],
LL .
sensibilitas .]
1 . (
Physiol .)
The quality or state of being sensible ,
or capable of sensation ;
capacity to feel or perceive .
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2 .
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 . "
Sensibilities so fine !" --
Cowper .
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The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility . --
Burke .
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His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride . --
Marshall .
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3 .
Experience of sensation ;
actual feeling .
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This adds greatly to my sensibility . --
Burke .
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4 .
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 .
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Syn :
Taste ;
susceptibility ;
feeling .
See {
Taste }.
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129 Moby Thesaurus words for "
sensibility ":
acuity ,
acumen ,
acuteness ,
adaptability ,
affectibility ,
affection ,
affectivity ,
agreeability ,
amenability ,
apperception ,
appreciation ,
appreciation of differences ,
appreciativeness ,
artistic judgment ,
astuteness ,
awareness ,
bendability ,
cogency ,
cognition ,
cognizance ,
connoisseurship ,
consciousness ,
critical niceness ,
criticalness ,
delicacy ,
discernment ,
discriminating taste ,
discriminatingness ,
discrimination ,
discriminativeness ,
ductibility ,
ductility ,
elasticity ,
emotion ,
emotions ,
extendibility ,
extensibility ,
facility ,
farseeingness ,
farsightedness ,
fastidiousness ,
feel ,
feeling ,
feelings ,
fictility ,
fine palate ,
finesse ,
flexibility ,
flexility ,
flexuousness ,
foresight ,
foresightedness ,
formativeness ,
give ,
heart ,
impressibility ,
impressionability ,
incisiveness ,
insight ,
judiciousness ,
keenness ,
limberness ,
limen ,
litheness ,
longheadedness ,
longsightedness ,
making distinctions ,
malleability ,
mindfulness ,
moldability ,
niceness of distinction ,
nicety ,
noesis ,
note ,
notice ,
openness to sensation ,
palate ,
penetration ,
perceptibility ,
perception ,
perceptiveness ,
percipience ,
perspicaciousness ,
perspicacity ,
perspicuity ,
perspicuousness ,
physical sensibility ,
plasticity ,
pliability ,
pliancy ,
providence ,
readiness of feeling ,
realization ,
receptiveness ,
receptivity ,
recognition ,
refined discrimination ,
refined palate ,
refinement ,
responsiveness ,
sagaciousness ,
sagacity ,
selectiveness ,
sensation level ,
sense ,
sensibilities ,
sensibleness ,
sensitiveness ,
sensitivity ,
sentience ,
sentiency ,
sentiments ,
sequacity ,
springiness ,
submissiveness ,
subtlety ,
suppleness ,
susceptibility ,
susceptivity ,
tact ,
tactfulness ,
taste ,
tensileness ,
tensility ,
threshold of sensation ,
tractability ,
tractility ,
trenchancy ,
willowiness
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Sensibility - Wikipedia Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another This concept emerged in eighteenth-century Britain, and was closely associated with studies of sense perception as the means through which knowledge is gathered
SENSIBILITY Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meanings of sensibility run the gamut from mere sensation to excessive sentimentality, but we’re here to help you make sense of it all In between is a capacity for delicate appreciation, a sense often pluralized
SENSIBILITY Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com SENSIBILITY definition: capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli See examples of sensibility used in a sentence
SENSIBILITY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary The author has applied a modern sensibility (= way of understanding things) to the social ideals of an earlier age
SENSIBILITY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary Someone's sensibility is their tendency to be influenced or offended by things He was unable to control his sensibility The challenge offended their sensibilities
sensibility noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . . Definition of sensibility noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
sensibility - Wiktionary, the free dictionary A poet who recites his own verses from ten to five with the tears rolling down his face should decidedly be rebuked for his lack of sensibility—his lack of sensibility to those grand rhythms of the social harmony, crudely called manners
Sensibility - definition of sensibility by The Free Dictionary sensibility capacity for feeling; responsiveness: She has a great sensibility for her patients
sensibility, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary There are 14 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun sensibility, four of which are labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
sensibility - WordReference. com Dictionary of English Susceptibility is the state or quality of being impressionable and responsive, esp to emotional stimuli; in the plural it has much the same meaning as sensibility: a person of keen susceptibilities