1. (

• sensibility ,
• esthesia ,
• aesthesia

) mental responsiveness and awareness ;

2. (

• sensibility

) refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility" ;

3. (

• sensitivity ,
• sensitiveness ,
• sensibility ,

) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain" ;