Word Finder - sensibility

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The ability to sense, feel or perceive; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity.

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Emotional or artistic awareness; keen sensitivity to matters of feeling or creative expression.

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Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional.

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(in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling.

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I apologize if I offended your sensibilities, but that's the truth of the matter.

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The capacity to be perceived by the senses.

Sensations, or the facts of the sensibility, are necessary; we do not impute them to ourselves.

We have reached a time where people treasure the sensibility of classic style.

Near the termination of a fatal case there is a paralysis of the sensory columns of the cord, so that general sensibility is lowered.

The three great results of psychological observation are Sensibility, Activity or Liberty, and Reason.

All light comes from the reason, and it is the reason which apprehends both itself and the sensibility which envelops it, and the will which it obliges but does not constrain.

It mixes the late eighties noisy aggression with the nineties pop punk sensibility - listeners from each genre should both be satisfied.

If we set aside such transcendental conditions as belong to sensibility or to the receptive phase of mind and are the presuppositions of juxtaposition of parts, the remainder are ascribable to spontaneity or understanding, to thought with its unifying, organizing or focussing function, and their elucidation is the problem of transcendental analytic. It is still logic, indeed, when we are occupied with the transcendent objects of the discursive faculty as it is employed beyond the limits of experience where it cannot validate its ideas.

There is a powerful Catholic sensibility at work here.

Taylor's theology was distinctively infra-lapsarian; it disagreed with Samuel Hopkins and Emmons in rejecting the theory of "divine efficiency" and in arguing that man can choose the right "even if he won't" - distinguishing like Edwards between natural ability and moral inability; it distinguished sensibility or susceptibility as something different from will or understanding, without moral qualities, to which the appeal for right choice may be made; and it made selflove (a term borrowed from Dugald Stewart, connoting the innocent love of happiness and distinct from selfishness) the particular feeling appealed to by the influences of the law and gospel.

They were, according to his analysis, personal will, primitive instincts, voluntary movement, natural and artificial signs, sensibility and the faculties of intellect; on this analytic he founded his scheme of the universe.

It is to Jellinek that we owe the oft-repeated comparison of the Jewish temperament to that of women in its quickness of perception, versatility and sensibility.

The influences which had inspired republican and Augustan literature were the artistic impulse derived from a familiarity with the great works of Greek genius, becoming more intimate with every new generation, the spell of Rome over the imagination of the kindred Italian races, the charm of Italy, and the vivid sensibility of the Italian temperament.

Dante, bringing a Christian sensibility to the proceedings, placed these monsters in his Inferno.

The beautiful Ellie 's Love Theme shows a distinct jazz sensibility, whilst No Name Bar is a tougher customer altogether.

The Humbug is often wrong and has a poor understanding of sensibility and social grace.

The band certainly has a rock sensibility, but the thing that separates Mana from other bands is their ability to bring in other styles of music into the fold.

In this day and age of fashion-forward sensibility and high style, there's no reason to lumber around town in an enormous, shapeless coat that leaves you looking like a giant marshmallow.

Companies that have a snappy casual dress code are usually cutting-edge and expect their employees to have a fashion-forward sensibility that matches the attitude they bring to their work.

In this collection, the frames perfectly blend fashionable styles with practical sensibility.

Because a highly stylized corset dress has a romantic, historical look, it's very prized by those who have a Gothic style and sensibility.

Often credited with turning grunge into glam, Marc Jacobs styles reflect a unique sensibility.

Some are ultra-stylish, others are quite conventional, but they all share a common sensibility.

Women with active lifestyles will likely favor the sensibility of a tote bag.

This sensibility also extends to her surroundings, and her house is usually well kept and organized yet still inviting.

In return, their footwear is highly regarded for endurance, style and sensibility all at once.

While they don't necessarily exude outward sex appeal, they boast an inherently chic sensibility that renders them instant classics.

Instead, spend sensibility, provide good service and a quality product and your clientèle will grow along with your bottom line.

As children become more eco-conscious, this is a good way to encourage that sensibility as a check against consumerism.

His general formula for getting at the number of units in any sensation is S = C log R, where s stands for the sensation, R for the stimulus numerically estimated, and c for a constant that must be separately determined by experiment in each particular order of sensibility.

Haller's definition of irritability as a property of muscular tissue, and its distinction from sensibility as a property of nerves, struck at the root of the prevailing hypothesis respecting animal activity.

It also tends to lessen the sensibility of the stomach and so may relieve gastric pain.

His sensibility, social charm, liberal ideas (he was one of the earliest of the Magyar freemasons) and personal beauty, opened the doors of the best houses to him.

His characteristically British temperament was wholly unsympathetic to the French, whose sensibility was irritated by his cold and slightly contemptuous justice.

He also showed that the Chinese mode of suspending the needle conduces most to sensibility.

As this position is approached the period of swing becomes greater and greater, and sensibility to slight tilting at right angles to the plane of o'o"m is increased.

Although this high degree of sensibility, and even a sensibility still higher, may be required in connexion with investigations respecting changes in the vertical, it is not necessary in ordinary seismometry.

Nothing can be more delightful than the reports I receive of the sensibility manifested by the inhabitants to this change in their circumstances.

In connexion with the modern study of radioactivity, the electroscope has become an instrument of great usefulness, far outrivalling the spectroscope in sensibility.

It is the crowning merit of the author that he never ceases to be an impartial spectator - a cold and curious critic. We might compare him to an anatomist, with knife and scalpel dissecting the dead body of Italy, and pointing out the symptoms of her manifold diseases with the indifferent analysis of one who has no moral sensibility.

The formula indicates that the sensibility of the instrument should increase with the charge of the Leyden jar or needle, whereas Hopkinson found that as the potential of the needle was increased by working the replenisher of the jar, the deflection due to three volts difference between the quadrants first increased and then diminished.

In a similar manner, for systems used in photography, the vertex of the colour curve must be placed in the position of the maximum sensibility of the plates; G'; and to accomplish this the F and violet mercury lines are united.

But, as he wrote to Young in 1824, in him "that sensibility, or that vanity, which people call love of glory" had been blunted.

It is not wonderful, therefore, that a lad to whom nature had given a powerful imagination and sensibility which amounted to a disease, should have been early haunted by religious terrors.

Psychology is with Cabanis directly linked on to biology, for sensibility, the fundamental fact, is the highest grade of life and the lowest of intelligence.

Life is something added to the organism; over and above the universally diffused sensibility there is some living and productive power to which we give the name of Nature.

The facts of reason are also necessary, and reason is not less independent of the will than the sensibility.

For, who with all his faults was never wanting in a fine and generous sensibility, proposed that there should be a public funeral, and that the body should lie among the illustrious dead in Westminster Abbey.

Feeling in this higher sense (as distinguished from "organic" sensibility, Empfindung), which is the minimum of distinct antithetic consciousness, the cessation of the antithesis of subject and object, constitutes likewise the unity of our being, in which the opposite functions of cognition and volition have their fundamental and permanent background of personality and their transitional link.

Those who came in contact with him noticed a transformation in his character; he tried to hide his natural sensibility under an impassive exterior, and concealed his political ambitions.

A certain confusion, arising from this, is noticeable in the Analytik when the necessity for justifying the position of the categories is under discussion, but the real difficulty in which Kant was involved by his doctrine of space and time has its roots even deeper than the erroneous isolation of sensibility.