"sensibility" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

Mental responsiveness and awareness (synset 105685989)
is a type of: consciousness - an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation

same as: aesthesia, esthesia
Refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions (synset 107528087)
"cruelty offended his sensibility"

is a type of: sensitiveness, sensitivity - sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
subtypes:
- insight, perceptiveness, perceptivity - a feeling of understanding
- sensuousness - a sensuous feeling
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli;
The faculty of sensation (synset 105660771)
"sensitivity to pain"

referred to in: physiology - the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms

is a type of: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency - the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
subtypes:
- acuteness - a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed
- hypersensitivity - extreme sensitivity
- reactivity, responsiveness - responsive to stimulation
- exteroception - sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
- interoception - sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body
- photosensitivity, radiosensitivity - sensitivity to the action of radiant energy
same as: sensitiveness, sensitivity