sensibility

Sensitive feelings about what is beautiful, right, or acceptable.

• The joke offended her sensibilities.
• His artistic sensibility shaped the design of the house.
• The film challenged the audience’s moral sensibilities.

Similar words: sensitivity, feelings

Common phrases: offend someone’s sensibility, artistic sensibility, moral sensibility

The ability to feel things through your body or become aware of them.

• The injury reduced sensibility in her hand.
• The doctor tested his sensibility to touch.
• Physical sensibility returned slowly as the nerves healed.

How to use it: sensibility to something (The test measures sensibility to pain.)

Similar words: sensitivity

Opposites: insensitivity

Common phrases: sensibility to something, physical sensibility