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 clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) (Mmm. Me, too.) For me, la Belle Époque Paris would have been perfect. - Really? Better than now? - Yes. Another whole sensibility, the street lamps, the kiosques, the...horse and carriages, and Maxim's then. You speak very good English. - No, not really. (..)
    2011 Midnight in Paris