English noun: sensibility |
1. | sensibility (cognition) mental responsiveness and awareness |
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| Synonyms | aesthesia, esthesia |
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| Broader (hypernym) | consciousness |
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| Antonyms | insensibility |
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2. | sensibility (feeling) refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions |
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| Samples | Cruelty offended his sensibility.
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| Broader (hypernym) | sensitiveness, sensitivity |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | insight, perceptiveness, perceptivity, sensuousness |
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3. | sensibility (cognition) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation |
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| Samples | Sensitivity to pain.
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| Synonyms | sensitiveness, sensitivity |
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| Broader (hypernym) | sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acuteness, exteroception, hypersensitivity, interoception, photosensitivity, radiosensitivity, reactivity, responsiveness |
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| Domain category | physiology |
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