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Another word for sensibility

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Noun

  1. The capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus

    See also:

    awareness

  2. The quality or condition of being emotionally and intuitively sensitive

    See also:

    awareness

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Another word for sensibility

Noun
  1. See also:

    sensitivity

    judgment

    awareness

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Sentence Examples

  • The three great results of psychological observation are Sensibility, Activity or Liberty, and Reason.

  • He was telling me something, and I wished to show him my sensibility, and not listening to what he was saying I began picturing to myself the condition of my inner man and the grace of God sanctifying me.

  • Sensations, or the facts of the sensibility, are necessary; we do not impute them to ourselves.

  • Such magnanimity and sensibility are like the magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

  • Haller's definition of irritability as a property of muscular tissue, and its distinction from sensibility as a property of nerves, struck at the root of the prevailing hypothesis respecting animal activity.

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