From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sensibility \Sen'si*bil"i*ty\, noun; pl. {Sensibilities}. [Cf. F. sensibilit['e], LL. sensibilitas.]
1. (Physiol.) 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.
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