Associations to the word «Sensibility»

Wiktionary

SENSIBILITY, noun. The ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another
SENSIBILITY, noun. (chiefly in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling

Dictionary definition

SENSIBILITY, noun. Mental responsiveness and awareness.
SENSIBILITY, noun. Refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility".
SENSIBILITY, noun. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley