Capacity of admitting. [Little used.]
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Capacity for receiving; susceptibility.
Liability Roget’s Thesaurus §177
V. be -liable, incur, lay oneself open to, run the chance, stand a chance, lie under, expose oneself to, open a door to
Adj. liable, subject, in danger, open to, exposed to, obnoxious to, answerable, unexempt from, apt to, dependent on, incident to, contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at the mercy of, 5, combinations of causes
Sensibility Roget’s Thesaurus §822
N. sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness, moral sensibility, impressibility, affectibility, susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity, mobility, vivacity, vivaciousness, tenderness, softness, sentimental, sentimentality, sentimentalism, excitability, fastidiousness, physical sensibility, sore point, sore place, where the shoe pinches
V. be sensible, have a tender heart, have a warm heart, have a sensitive heart, take to heart, treasure up in the heart, shrink, "die of a rose in aromatic pain", touch to the quick, touch on the raw, touch a raw nerve
Adj. sensible, sensitive, impressible, impressionable, susceptive, susceptible, alive to, impassionable, gushing, warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, sentimental, romantic, enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive, excitable, oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned, fastidious
Adv. sensibly, to the quick, to the inmost core
Phr. mens aequa in arduis, pour salt in the wound
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