What is the meaning of sensibility?

noun

  • Mental responsiveness and awareness.
  • Refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions.
    • usage: "cruelty offended his sensibility"
  • Physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation. (
    • usage: "sensitivity to pain"
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