Bible Dictionaries
Sensibility

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) 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.

(2):

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

(3):

(n.) Experience of sensation; actual feeling.

(4):

(n.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sensibility'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/sensibility.html. 1828.