\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.
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.
         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.
3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
         This adds greatly to my sensibility.  --Burke.
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.
Syn: Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See {Taste}.