sensibility
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6.6
- noun
- /ˌsɛn.sɪˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
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sensibilidad
- A virtuous person depends on compassionate sensibility in two very important ways.
- offend sensibilities
- religious sensibility
- moral sensibility
So you don't have sensibility first and then get space and time.
- So you don't have sensibility first and then get space and time.
Examples
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Universal compassion requires education in both the common vulnerability and the common sensibility of mankind:
Academic text (1997) -
His camera has recorded something that his sensibility could not register.
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What is required is the proper ordering of natural sensibility, and this is a task for the imagination.
Academic text (2001) -
Implied in his thinking is the idea that deeper religious sensibility is tied to improvements in basic living conditions.
Academic text (2007) -
His is a religious sensibility in a disenchanted, physically devastated universe after nature.
Academic text (2003) -
Out of this, artists create and audiences respond using their senses and sensibilities.
Academic text (2005) -
As in the Markan story, Jesus' words grate against the most basic moral sensibilities.
Academic text (2002) -
Farrell was not alone in revealing his moral qualms; his sensibility echoed periodically through medical journals.
Academic text (1997) -
Her strong artistic sensibility allows her to create beautiful and thought-provoking pieces.
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He demonstrated an acute sensibility in understanding the emotions of those around him.
Synonyms
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A physical ability to notice the world using sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch
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3.5
A feeling in your body from touch, pain, or heat
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4.2
The body's ability to feel things like touch or light
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8.2
The ability to feel and notice things, like pain or happiness
An ability to see, hear, or feel the world
The ability to notice, understand, and judge things
The ability to feel touch, pain, temperature, body position, and internal organs
Ability to feel or notice very small physical changes
Ability to feel or notice things around you
Antonyms
How Sensitive
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7.0
- Specialized
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6.6
- Specialized
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4.6
- Specialized
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4.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sensibility comes from the Latin word sensus meaning 'feeling', from sentire 'to feel', and is the same root as the everyday words sense and sensitive. So, sensibility in this sense means how well the body can 'feel' touch, pain, or other physical signals.