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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

  • (..) which I will put out this instant... if the phallic nature of it happens to offend... your goddamned fragile sensibilities! - Does it? - No, sir. "No, sir," what? The shape doesn't bother me, sir. (..)
    1997 G.I. Jane