1. Susceptibility of impressions; the capacity for feeling or perceiving the impressions of external objects; applied to the animal bodies ; as when we say, a frozen limb has lost its sensibility .
2. Acuteness of sensation; applied to the body .
3. Capacity of acuteness of perception; that quality of the soul which renders it susceptible of impressions; delicacy of feeling; as sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility .
4. Actual feeling.
5. This adds to my great sensibility . Burke .
6. [This word is often used in this manner for sensation .]
7. It is sometimes used in the plural.
8. His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism, than of wounded pride.
9. Marshall .
10. Sensibilities unfriendly to happiness, may be acquired. Encyc .
11. Nice perception, so to speak, of a balance; that quality of a balance which renders it movable with the smallest weight, or the quality or state of any insrument that renders it easily affected; as the sensibility of a balance or of a thermometer.