sensibility

sensibilité

Sentiments délicats à l'égard de ce qui est beau, juste ou acceptable.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : sensitivity, feelings

Expressions courantes : offend someone’s sensibility, artistic sensibility, moral sensibility

sensibilité

Capacité à percevoir des sensations par le corps ou à en prendre conscience.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : sensibility to something (The test measures sensibility to pain.)

Synonymes : sensitivity

Contraires : insensitivity

Expressions courantes : sensibility to something, physical sensibility