Sĕn'si-bil'i-ty, n.

n. [Fr. sensibilité, Pr. sensibilitat, Sp. sensibilidad, It. sensibilità, L. Lat. sensibilitas.]

1. The quality or condition of being sensible; susceptibility of impression; capacity to feel or perceive; —applied especially to animal bodies; as, a frozen limb loses its sensibility.
2. Hence, specifically, the capacity of the soul to exercise, or to be the subject of, emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; also, the capacity for any specific feeling or emotion.
3. Acuteness of sensation, or of perception; 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.

The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. Burke. His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. Marshall.

4. Hence, 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.
5. Experience of sensations; actual feeling.

This adds greatly to my sensibility. Burke. Syn.—Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See TASTE.