Sensibility
Sensibility , noun
[Compare French sensibilité, Late Latin sensibilitas.]
1.
(Physiology) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
2.
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.
Sensibilities so fine!
The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility.
His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride.
3.
Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
This adds greatly to my sensibility.
4.
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.