English-Thai Dictionary

sensibility

N การ ตอบสนอง ต่อ สิ่งกระตุ้น  การ รับ ความรู้สึก  kan-tob-sa-nong-tor-siang-kra-tuan

 

sensibility

N การ ไว ต่อ ความรู้สึก  ความรู้สึก ไว  responsiveness perceptivity intangibility kan-wai-tor-kwam-ru-suek

 

sensibility

N สติ สัมปชัญญะ  ไหวพริบ  conscious sa-ti-sam-pa-cha-ya

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SENSIBILITY

n. 1. Susceptibility of impressions; the capacity for feeling or perceiving the impressions of external objects; applied to the animal bodies; as when we say, a frozen limb has lost its sensibility.
2. Acuteness of sensation; applied to the body.
3. Capacity of acuteness of perception; that quality of the soul which renders it susceptible of impressions; delicacy of feeling; as sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility.
4. Actual feeling.
This adds to my great sensibility. Burke.
[This word is often used in this manner for sensation. ]
5. It is sometimes used in the plural.
His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism, than of wounded pride. Marshall.
Sensibilities unfriendly to happiness, may be acquired. Encyc.
6. Nice perception, so to speak, of a balance; that quality of a balance which renders it movable with the smallest weight, or the quality or state of any insrument that renders it easily affected; as the sensibility of a balance or of a thermometer.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SENSIBILITY

Sen `si *bil "i *ty, n.; pl. Sensibilities. Etym: [Cf. F. sensibilité, LL. sensibilitas.]

 

1. (Physiol.)

 

Defn: 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! " Cowper. The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. Burke. His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. Marshall.

 

3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling. This adds greatly to my sensibility. Burke.

 

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.

 

Syn. -- Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See Taste.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sensibility

sen si bil i ty |ˌsensəˈbilitē ˌsɛnsəˈbɪlədi | ▶noun ( pl. sensibilities ) the ability to appreciate and respond to complex emotional or aesthetic influences; sensitivity: the study of literature leads to a growth of intelligence and sensibility. • (sensibilities ) a person's delicate sensitivity that makes them readily offended or shocked: the scale of the poverty revealed by the survey shocked people's sensibilities. • Zoology, dated sensitivity to sensory stimuli. ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting the power of sensation ): from late Latin sensibilitas, from sensibilis ‘that can be perceived by the senses ’ (see sensible ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

sensibility

sens |ibil ¦ity |ˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪti | ▶noun ( pl. sensibilities ) [ mass noun ] 1 the quality of being able to appreciate and respond to complex emotional or aesthetic influences; sensitivity: the study of literature leads to a growth of intelligence and sensibility. • (sensibilities ) a quality of delicate sensitivity that makes one liable to be offended or shocked: the scale of the poverty revealed by the survey shocked people's sensibilities. 2 Zoology, dated sensitivity to sensory stimuli. ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting the power of sensation ): from late Latin sensibilitas, from sensibilis ‘that can be perceived by the senses ’ (see sensible ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

sensibility

sensibility noun 1 develop your sensibility: sensitivity, finer feelings, delicacy, taste, discrimination, discernment; understanding, insight, empathy, appreciation; feeling, intuition, responsiveness, receptiveness, perceptiveness, awareness. 2 (sensibilities ) the wording might offend their sensibilities: (finer ) feelings, emotions, sensitivities, moral sense.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

sensibility

sensibility noun 1 the study of literature leads to a growth of intelligence and sensibility: sensitivity, sensitiveness, finer feelings, delicacy, subtlety, taste, discrimination, discernment; understanding, insight, empathy, appreciation, awareness of the feelings of others; feeling, intuition, intuitiveness, responsiveness, receptivity, receptiveness, perceptiveness, awareness. 2 (sensibilities ) the wording was changed because it might offend people's sensibilities: feelings, emotions, finer feelings, delicate sensitivity, sensitivities, susceptibilities, moral sense, sense of outrage.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sensibility

sen si bil i ty /sènsəbɪ́ləti /→sense 名詞 複 -ties 1 〖one's ～/-ties 〗(細やかな )感情 , 気持ち (→sense 類義 )▸ wound [offend ] her sensibilities 彼女の気持ちを傷つける [気分を害する ]2 U (文学 芸術などに対する )感受性 , 感性 ▸ artistic sensibility 芸術的感性 3 U ｟やや古 ｠【外的刺激に対する 】感度 , 感覚 (力 ) «to » .