Skip to main content

sensibility

/sen-suh-bil-i-tee/US // ˌsɛn səˈbɪl ɪ ti //UK // (ˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ) //

感性,感性认识,感性思维,感性上

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sen·si·bil·i·ties.

    • : capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
    • : mental susceptibility or responsiveness; quickness and acuteness of apprehension or feeling.
    • : keen consciousness or appreciation.
    • : sensibilities, emotional capacities.
    • : Sometimes sensibilities. liability to feel hurt or offended; sensitive feelings.
    • : Often sensibilities. capacity for intellectual and aesthetic distinctions, feelings, tastes, etc.: a man of refined sensibilities.
    • : the property, as in plants or instruments, of being readily affected by external influences.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • By mixing cultural foodways with modern sensibilities, we can feel good about having a sustainable holiday feast.

  • I was just, my sensibilities are just offended by its very existence.

  • Vallely said the original philanthropists, such as 18th-century prison reformer John Howard, functioned under the “cult of sensibility.”

  • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat does just that—it teaches you how to cook, the science of what makes food taste good, and how to gain your own flavor sensibilities and confidence in the kitchen.

  • It helps me have a sensibility,This is how I feel my ancestry speaks, through food and especially through cacao.

  • He stayed up all night, looking at the streets he had biked around as a kid with a whole new sensibility.

  • Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was as provocative as Hammerstein, though with a much less earnest, more whimsical sensibility.

  • Hitchcock's sensibility was being shaped by the German Expressionist masters.

  • I do feel there is a gay sensibility in everything I do, including the Twilight movies.

  • As he debuts on Broadway, he talks Beyoncé, Kristen Stewart, Benedict Cumberbatch, and the ‘gay sensibility’ in all he does.

  • It represents an engaging personality, in which vivacity and sensibility are distinctly indicated.

  • No one with even an ordinary share of sensibility can witness a ceremony involving such consequences without the deepest emotion.

  • She was delighted with these indications of gratitude and sensibility on the part of the unenlightened and lowly peasantry.

  • What an agitation, and at the same time what an unhealthy stimulus to his over-sensibility!

  • In this change of attitude his artistic sensibility unquestionably played a part.