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How to pronounce sensibility in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms sensitiveness, sensitivity
Type of sensory faculty, sensation, sense, sentience, sentiency
Has types responsiveness, radiosensitivity, exteroception, hypersensitivity, interoception, photosensitivity, acuteness, reactivity
Derivation sensible
Type Words
Synonyms aesthesia, esthesia
Type of consciousness
Derivation sensible
Type Words
Type of sensitiveness, sensitivity
Has types perceptivity, sensuousness, perceptiveness, insight


cruelty offended his sensibility.

Examples of sensibility

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How does one dress to accommodate the job and stay true to a unique sensibility?
From the theepochtimes.com
He is in danger, also, of becoming less a private sensibility than a public act.
From the time.com
In part, the region's changing demography is changing its political sensibility.
From the theatlantic.com
Mr. Obama has also brought a more relaxed sensibility to his public appearances.
From the nytimes.com
She creates dances with a balletic, clean style and an often poetic sensibility.
From the nytimes.com
This, for the most part, is a tale of comic good sense and poignant sensibility.
From the time.com
He has the technical skills of a grown-up, and the sensibility of an adolescent.
From the independent.co.uk
They also integrate their design sensibility into their brick-and-mortar stores.
From the businessweek.com
Just a state of heightened sensibility that can even manifest as mystical bliss.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
More examples
  • Mental responsiveness and awareness
  • Refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility"
  • Sensitivity: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"
  • Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another. This concept emerged in eighteenth-century Britain, and was closely associated with studies of sense perception as the means through which knowledge is gathered. ...
  • The ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another; An acute awareness or feeling
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  • The faculty concerned with passively receiving objects. This is accomplished primarily in the form of physical and mental sensations (via 'outer sense' and 'inner sense', respectively). ...
  • Somnambulism . . . spiritualism . . .sublime . . . succubus . . . supernatural gadgetry . . . superstition . . . Unheimlich. . .
  • Physiological ability to perceive different stimuli using the sense organs. (General description for sensitivity/susceptibility to stimuli).