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sensibility

[ sen-suh-bil-i-tee ]

noun

plural sensibilities.
  1. capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
  2. mental susceptibility or responsiveness; quickness and acuteness of apprehension or feeling.

    Synonyms: ,

  3. keen consciousness or appreciation.
  4. sensibilities, emotional capacities.
  5. Sometimes sensibilities. liability to feel hurt or offended; sensitive feelings.
  6. Often sensibilities. capacity for intellectual and aesthetic distinctions, feelings, tastes, etc.:

    a man of refined sensibilities.

  7. the property, as in plants or instruments, of being readily affected by external influences.


sensibility

/ 藢蝉蓻苍蝉瑟藞产瑟濒瑟迟瑟 /

noun

  1. the ability to perceive or feel
  2. often plural the capacity for responding to emotion, impression, etc
  3. often plural the capacity for responding to aesthetic stimuli
  4. mental responsiveness; discernment; awareness
  5. usually plural emotional or moral feelings

    cruelty offends most people's sensibilities

  6. the condition of a plant of being susceptible to external influences, esp attack by parasites
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 丑测顎卲别谤路蝉别苍顎却颈路产颈濒顎僫路迟测 noun
  • 苍辞苍顎却别苍路蝉颈路产颈濒顎僫路迟测 noun plural nonsensibilities
  • 耻苍顎却别苍路蝉颈路产颈濒顎僫路迟测 noun plural unsensibilities
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of sensibility1

First recorded in 1325鈥75; Middle English sensibilite, from Middle French, from Late Latin 蝉脓苍蝉颈产颈濒颈迟腻蝉. See sensible, -ity
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Synonym Study

Sensibility, susceptibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity refer to capacity to respond to or be affected by something. Sensibility is, particularly, capacity to respond to aesthetic and emotional stimuli: the sensibility of the artist. Susceptibility is the state or quality of being impressionable and responsive, especially to emotional stimuli; in the plural it has much the same meaning as sensibility : a person of keen susceptibilities. Sensitiveness is the state or quality of being sensitive, of having a capacity of sensation and of responding to external stimuli: sensitiveness to light. Sensitivity is a special capability of being sensitive to physiological, chemical action or a tendency to be easily affected by the adverse reactions of others: the sensitivity of a nerve; sensitivity to criticism.
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But that鈥檚 not what we set out to do,鈥 David says of the series鈥 surreal sensibility.

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Director David Cromer, whose sensibility gravitates between stark and dark, endows the staging with macabre elegance.

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As if the very notion of treating vegetables in this way was an affront to his Italian sensibilities.

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He brings the same sensibility to his one-man shows.

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Nowadays, Thewlis鈥 return to something approximating our old-fashioned picture of Holmes reminds us of sensibility鈥檚 valiance in a world given to absurdity and madness.

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