n. The state or property of being sensible or capable of sensation; capability of sensation.n. Mental receptivity or susceptibility in general.n. Specifically, the capacity of exercising or being the subject of emotion or feeling in a restricted sense; capacity for the higher or more refined feelings.n. In a still narrower sense, peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; unusual delicacy or keenness of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; sensitiveness: in this sense used frequently in the plural.n. The property, as in an instrument, of responding quickly to very slight changes of condition; delicacy; sensitiveness (the better word in this use).n. Sensation.n. Feeling; appreciation; sense; realization.n. Synonyms and Taste, Sensibility. See taste.