sensibility

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sensibility noun. LME.
[Late Latin sensibilitas from Latin sensibilis: partly from SENSIBLE: see SENSIBLE, -ITY. Cf. Old & mod. French sensibilite.]
In pl. Emanations from bodies, supposed to be the cause of sensation. Only in LME.
Power of sensation or perception; sensitivity to sensory stimuli. LME.
b. Philosophy. Capacity for sensation and emotion as opp. to cognition and will. M19.
Mental perception, awareness of something. LME-M17.
a. The quality of being quickly or easily affected by emotional or artistic influences; susceptibility or sensitivity to, keen awareness of. L16.
P. Halmos Man's sensibility to his fellow man's needs..seeks expression in the..ministrations of the counsellors.
b. Highly developed sense of emotional or artistic awareness, extreme or excessive sensitivity or sympathy. arch. M18.
W. H. Prescott Monuments of Oriental magnificence..the admiration of every traveller of sensibility and taste.
a. In pl. Emotional capacities or feelings. Formerly also, instincts of liking or aversion. M17.
George Eliot The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities.
b. In pl. & sing. A person's moral, emotional, or aesthetic ideas or standards; sensitive feelings, susceptibilities. M18.
R. Christiansen The carousing obscenities of the prostitutes offended her sensibilities. Paragraph His work is..totally outrageous to a liberal-humanist sensibility.
Of (part of) a plant, an instrument, etc.: ability to be affected by external influences; sensitiveness, sensitivity. Foll. by to (rarely of). M17.
Emotional consciousness of something; grateful, resentful, or sympathetic recognition of conduct etc. M18.
S. Johnson I was..at Mrs. Montague's, who expressed great sensibility of your loss.
? Rare until M18.