sensibility

Definition

  • noun: the kinds of feelings that you have when you hear, see, read, or think about something
  • noun: ability to receive 'sensations'
  • often used in plural
  • synonyms: feeling, susceptibility, taste

Examples

  • This movie appeals to people with a feminist 'sensibility'. [=this movie appeals to feminists]

  • The writer is remembered most for his 'sensibility'.

  • She's a woman of poetic/artistic 'sensibility'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity, called the use of this language, 'spells'. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities, you can... call it, 'program'. The source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions (..)
    2016 Doctor Strange