sensibility
suomi-englanti sanakirjasensibility englannista suomeksi
tunteet, herkkätunteisuus
herkkyys
vastaanottavuus
Substantiivi
sensibility englanniksi
Emotions or feelings arising from or relating to aesthetic or moral standards, especially those which are sensitive and thus likely to be hurt or offended. (defdate)
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(RQ:Prescott Philip 2)
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(quote-web)
The ability to feel, perceive, or sense; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity; also, the degree to which someone or something (especially a sensory organ or tissue) is able to respond to sensory stimuli. (defdate)
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(RQ:Elyot Castel of Helth), it prycketh and annoyeth the ſynewes, whiche make ſenſibilitie, the rootes of whome, ar in the brayn, and from thenſe paſſeth through all the body.
(RQ:Paley Natural Theology)
The quality of being easily affected by external forces or stimuli; also, of a measuring instrument: the quality of being able to detect small changes in the environment.
(RQ:Boyle New Experiments).
(quote-journal) For the Philosophical Society of Glasgow|Royal Philosophical Society &91;of Glasgow&93; by Griffin and Company|Richard Griffin & Company|volume=IV|issue=4|page=276|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofphi60phil/page/276/mode/1up|oclc=1021874965|passage=The high sensibility of the divided ring electrometer renders this test really very easy, as not more than from ten to twenty cells are required; (..)
Keen sensitivity to matters of creative expression or feeling; artistic or emotional awareness. (defdate)
(RQ:Douay Bible) is ſaied to haue indurated Pharaoes hart, not that he brought the hardnes it ſelfe, but for that his deſertes ſo requiring, he did not mollifie it, vvith ſenſibilitie of fear infuſed from aboue.
(RQ:Spectator) It is such an exquisite sensibility, as warns her to shun the first appearance of every thing which is hurtful.
(RQ:Burke Sublime and Beautiful)
(RQ:Austen Emma)
(RQ:Chesterton Dickens)
(RQ:T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood)
(quote-web) has just arrived to the leadership … But from what is apparent, this man has a high level of political sensibility, that is vastly different than the one who preceded him (..)
Affected or excessive artistic or emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional; overemotionality. (defdate)
(RQ:Sterne Sentimental Journey)
(RQ:Wollstonecraft Vindication Women)
(RQ:Byron Hours of Idleness)
(RQ:Carlyle Essays)
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair) Mozart? The tender parts of Giovanni|Don Juan awakened in her raptures so exquisite that she would ask herself when she went to say her prayers of a night, whether it was not wicked to feel so much delight as that with which "Vedrai Carino" and "Batti Batti" filled her gentle little bosom?
Awareness; also, understanding.
(RQ:Idler)
The capacity of something to be perceived by the senses; perceptibility.
Of a plant or one of its parts: the ability to move in response to a stimulus.
(RQ:Darwin Movement in Plants)
(senseid) The ability to perceive or sense opposed to the ability to understand; also, in the philosophy of the German philosopher (w) (1724–1804): emotion or feeling as opposed to the will.
(RQ:Augustine City of God)
(RQ:Kant Haywood Pure Reason) This predicate (''attribute'') is only so far applied to things, as they appear to us—that is, as they are objects of sensibility. The constant form of this Receptivity which we name Sensibility, is a necessary condition of all relationships, wherein objects are envisaged as external to us, (..) (quote-gloss) If we will term the ''receptivity'' of our mind for receiving representations, so far as it is in some way affected, ''sensibility'', so is, on the other hand, the faculty of itself bringing forth representations, or the ''Spontaneity'' of the cognition, the ''Understanding''. (..) Without sensibility no object would be given to us, and without understanding none be thought.
An emotional sense or understanding of something.
A sign or token of appreciation or gratitude.