Definition of Sensibility

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Sensibility

The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural.

Experience of sensation; actual feeling.

That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.

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Sensibility Quotations

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel Kant

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
Alexander Hamilton

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Susan Sontag

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
Samuel L. Jackson

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Charles Baudelaire

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
Joseph Conrad

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Salman Rushdie

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
Ben Stiller

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.
Siobhan Fahey

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