Sensibility

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Experience of sensation; actual feeling.

II. Sensibility ·noun The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

III. Sensibility ·noun 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.

IV. Sensibility ·noun 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.