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sensibility
(mass) | sensibility
- citlivosť |
sensibility
(encz) | sensibility,cit n: Rostislav Svoboda |
sensibility
(encz) | sensibility,citlivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Sensibility
(gcide) | Sensibility \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.
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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.
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The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of
sensibility. --Burke.
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His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of
patriotism than of wounded pride. --Marshall.
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3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
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This adds greatly to my sensibility. --Burke.
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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.
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Syn: Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See Taste.
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sensibility
(wn) | sensibility
n 1: mental responsiveness and awareness [syn: sensibility,
esthesia, aesthesia] [ant: insensibility]
2: refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions;
"cruelty offended his sensibility"
3: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty
of sensation; "sensitivity to pain" [syn: sensitivity,
sensitiveness, sensibility] |
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insensibility
(mass) | insensibility
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sensibility
(mass) | sensibility
- citlivosť |
insensibility
(encz) | insensibility,lhostejnost n: Zdeněk Brožinsensibility,necitelnost n: Zdeněk Brožinsensibility,necitlivost n: Zdeněk Brožinsensibility,nevnímavost n: Zdeněk Brož |
sensibility
(encz) | sensibility,cit n: Rostislav Svobodasensibility,citlivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Hypersensibility
(gcide) | Hypersensibility \Hy`per*sen`si*bil"i*ty\, n.
See Hyper[ae]sthesia.
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Insensibility
(gcide) | Insensibility \In*sen`si*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F.
insensibilit['e].]
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1. The state or quality of being insensible; lack of
sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the
insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.
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2. Lack of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or
passion; dullness; stupidity.
Syn: Dullness; numbness; unfeelingness; stupidity; torpor;
apathy; impassiveness; indifference.
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Recurrent sensibility
(gcide) | Recurrent \Re*cur"rent\ (-rent), a. [L. recurrens, -entis, p.
pr. of recurrere: cf.F. r['e]current. See Recur.]
1. Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent
pains.
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2. (Anat.) Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent
nerve or artery.
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Recurrent fever. (Med.) See Relapsing fever, under
Relapsing.
Recurrent pulse (Physiol.), the pulse beat which appears
(when the radial artery is compressed at the wrist) on the
distal side of the point of pressure through the arteries
of the palm of the hand.
Recurrent sensibility (Physiol.), the sensibility
manifested by the anterior, or motor, roots of the spinal
cord (their stimulation causing pain) owing to the
presence of sensory fibers from the corresponding sensory
or posterior roots.
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insensibility
(wn) | insensibility
n 1: a lack of sensibility [ant: aesthesia, esthesia,
sensibility]
2: devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness [syn:
unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness,
insensibility] |
sensibility
(wn) | sensibility
n 1: mental responsiveness and awareness [syn: sensibility,
esthesia, aesthesia] [ant: insensibility]
2: refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions;
"cruelty offended his sensibility"
3: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty
of sensation; "sensitivity to pain" [syn: sensitivity,
sensitiveness, sensibility] |
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