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Sensibility
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(sensibilities) 1. Sensibility is the ability to experience deep feelings. Everything he writes demonstrates the depth of his sensibility. N-UNCOUNT: usu supp N 2. Someone’s sensibility is their tendency to be influenced or offended by things. The challenge offended their sensibilities. N-VAR: usu poss N
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1.
noun (plural -ties) Date: 15th century 1. ability to receive sensations ; sensitiveness tactile ~ 2. peculiar susceptibility to a pleasurable or painful impression (as from praise or a slight) — often used in plural 3. awareness of and responsiveness toward something (as emotion in another) 4. refined or excessive sensitiveness in emotion and taste with especial responsiveness to the pathetic ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 capacity to feel (little finger lost its sensibility). 2 a openness to emotional impressions, susceptibility, sensitiveness (sensibility to kindness). b an exceptional or excessive degree of this (sense and sensibility). 3 (in pl.) a tendency to feel offended etc. Etymology: ME f. LL sensibilitas (as SENSIBLE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1) чувствительность 2) точность (прибора) - sensibility of disturbances - deflection sensibility ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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1. чувствительность the sensibility of the skin —- чувствительность кожи sensibility to smth. —- чувствительность к чему-л. to have sensibility to an influence —- легко поддаваться влиянию 2. чувствительность, точность (прибора) the sensibility of the magnetic needle —- чувствительность магнитной стрелки 3. чувствительность, сентиментальность mawkish sensibility —- слезливая чувствительность 4. восприимчивость, чуткость fine sensibility —- высокая восприимчивость blunt sensibility —- плохая восприимчивость aesthetic sensibility —- эстетическое чувство delicate literary sensibility —- тонкий литературный вкус the sensibility of one's own weakness —- сознание собственной слабости to show a marked sensibility to smth. —- быть крайне восприимчивым к чему-л. he has little artistic sensibility —- он мало восприимчив к искусству 5. уязвимость; обидчивость to wound (to offend, to shock) smb.'s sensibilities —- обидеть, задеть за живое, шокировать кого-л. ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ n plural sensibilities 1 wound/offend sb's sensibilities to offend someone by being rude or unpleasant etc (It wounded her delicate sensibilities to be addressed in such a vulgar manner.) 2 the ability to understand feelings, especially those expressed in literature or art (Basil was above all a person of sensibility and perception.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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