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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope