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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Sensibilities (0.00979 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Sensibilities.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: sensibility merasakan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sensibility sensibility n 1: mental responsiveness and awareness [ant: insensibility] 2: refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; “cruelty offended his sensibility” 3: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; “sensitivity to pain” [syn: sensitivity, sensitiveness]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sensibilities Sensibility \Sen`si*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Sensibilities. [Cf. F. sensibilit['e], LL. sensibilitas.] 1. (Physiol.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. “Sensibilities so fine!” --Cowper. [1913 Webster] The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. --Burke. [1913 Webster] His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. --Marshall. [1913 Webster] 3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling. [1913 Webster] This adds greatly to my sensibility. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 4. 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. [1913 Webster] Syn: Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See Taste. [1913 Webster]

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