sensibility

sensibility
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Receptivity
Nouns
1. sensibility, sensitivity, sensitiveness; feeling, perceptivity, esthetics; sensation, impression; consciousness (see knowledge); sensorium.
2. (mental sensibility) sensibleness, impressionableness, affectibility; susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity; tenderness, softness; sentimentality, sentimentalism. Slang, mush, corn, schmaltz. See irascibility, excitability.
3. (physical sensibility) sensation, tickle, tickling, titillation, itch[iness], itching; formication; aura; tingling, prickling; pins and needles; sore spot or point; allergy; the five senses. See touch, taste, odor, hearing, vision.
Verbs
1. be sensible of; feel, perceive; sharpen, cultivate, tutor; impress. See touch.
2. have a tender, warm, or sensitive heart, be sensitive; take to, treasure; shrink; touch to the quick, touch the heart.
3. itch, tingle, creep, thrill, sting; prick[le], formicate; tickle, titillate.
Adjectives — sensible, sensitive, sensuous; aesthetic, perceptive, sentient; conscious; acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive; impressionable; susceptive, susceptible; alive to; gushing; warmhearted, tenderhearted, softhearted; tender, soft, sentimental, romantic; enthusiastic, high-flying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, excitable; oversensitive, thin-skinned; fastidious; alert, aware. Slang, corny, cornball, mushy, sappy.
Quotations — O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts! (John Keats), Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings (Samuel Johnson).
Antonyms, see insensibility.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. responsiveness, perceptivity, keenness; see awareness , judgment 1 , sensitivity .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
ability to feel, sensitivity, sentience, responsiveness, receptivity, perception, perceptiveness.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus: feeling, sensation, sense, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment. See AWARENESS. 2. The quality or condition of being emotionally and intuitively sensitive: feeling, sensitiveness, sensitivity. See AWARENESS.

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