sensibility

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The ability to sense, feel or perceive; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity.
2. (countable, uncountable) Emotional or artistic awareness; keen sensitivity to matters of feeling or creative expression.
3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional.
4. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) An acute awareness or feeling.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The capacity to be perceived by the senses.

Synonyms

sensitiveness

susceptibility

sensitivity

feeling

emotion

affection

affectivity

pathos

passion

delicacy

empathy

aesthesia

esthesia

sentimentality

sentimentalism

sense

sensuousness

feelings

sentience

receptivity

response

responsiveness

sensitive

sentiment

squeamishness

subtlety

suggestibility

susceptibleness

tenderness

ticklishness

vulnerability

will

wisdom

well attuned to

susceptiveness

susceptivity

susceptibilities

alertness

power of feeling

appropriateness

conscious

emotionality

erethism

excitability

exquisiteness

feel

good sense

humanity

impression

inductance

Translations

sensibilité

sensibilidad

Sensibilität

sensibilità

sensibilidade

ευαισθησία

Empfindlichkeit

αισθηματικότητα

delicadeza

sensibilitat

anlayış

Feingefühl

Empfindungsvermögen

Empfindsamkeit

duyarlık

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪti/

Etymology

From sensible + -ity, from Middle French sensibilité, and its source, Latin sēnsibilitās.