Definitions for sensibility

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sensibility sen·si·bil·i·ty

Spelling: [sen-suh-bil-i-tee]

IPA: /ˌsɛn səˈbɪl ɪ ti/

Sensibility is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 382 anagrams from letters in sensibility (beiiilnssty).

Definitions for sensibility

noun

1. capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
2. mental susceptibility or responsiveness; quickness and acuteness of apprehension or feeling.
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.:
7. the property, as in plants or instruments, of being readily affected by external influences.

Origin of sensibility

1325-75; Middle English sensibilite Middle French Late Latin sēnsibilitās. See sensible, -ity

Examples for sensibility

“Obviously I hire people who fit the sensibility,” Griffin says.

Hitchcock's sensibility was being shaped by the German Expressionist masters.

If a man is amiable, and if I have taste and sensibility, I must see and feel it.

The sensibility about female characters is different than it was.

Nature has been too kind to you for your happiness, your delicacy, your sensibility.

The charm of sensibility he had told me was to him irresistible.

The value of candour in individuals should be measured by their sensibility to shame.

Alas it must be so—even were I to fly to him, my sensibility could not support the scene.

He brought a sensibility to late-night TV that nobody else had anywhere in the broadcast day.

How did your favorite short story writers shape your sensibility?