SENSIBILITY

sensibility|sensibleness. Sensibility, or Sensibleness, n. quickness of sensation

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Sen′si‐bil″i‐ty (?), n.; pl. Sensibilities (#). [[Cf. F. sensibilité, LL. sensibilitas.]] 1. 1. (Physiol.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
2. 2. The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; — often used in the plural. “Sensibilities so fine!” Cowper.
The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. Burke. His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. Marshall. 3. 3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
This adds greatly to my sensibility. Burke. 4. 4. That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.
Syn. — Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See Taste.