Sensible
Sensible , adjective
[French, from Latin sensibilis, from sensus sense.]
1.
Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; as, sensible heat; sensible resistance.
Air is sensible to the touch by its motion.
The disgrace was more sensible than the pain.
Any very sensible effect upon the prices of things.
2.
Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physically or mentally; impressible.
Would your cambric were sensible as your finger.
3.
Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.
With affection wondrous sensible.
4.
Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.
He [man] can not think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
They are now sensible it would have been better to comply than to refuse.
5.
Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.
6.
Possessing or containing sense or reason; gifted with, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.
Now a sensible man, by and by a fool.
Collocations (2)
Sensible note or Sensible tone (Music) , the major seventh note of any scale; -- so called because, being but a half step below the octave, or key tone, and naturally leading up to that, it makes the ear sensible of its approaching sound. Called also the leading tone.
Sensible horizon , See Horizon, n., 2. (a).
Sensible , noun
1.
Sensation; sensibility. [Rare]
Our temper changed... which must needs remove the sensible of pain.
2.
That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.
Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper.
3.
That which has sensibility; a sensitive being. [Rare]
This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.