Noun: sensibility ,sen-su'bi-li-tee
- Capacity for sensation or feeling
"The sensibility of the skin allows us to perceive touch and temperature";
- esthesia [US], aesthesia
- Refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
"cruelty offended his sensibility"
- (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
"sensibility to pain";
- sensitivity, sensitiveness
Derived forms: sensibilities
Type of: consciousness, sensation, sense, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency
Encyclopedia: Sensibility