Sensitivity vs. Sensibility

Sensitivitynoun

The quality or state of being sensitive; sensitiveness.

Sensitivitynoun

The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.

Sensitivitynoun

(statistics) The proportion of individuals in a population that will be correctly identified in a binary classification test.

Sensitivitynoun

(electronics) The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.

Sensitivitynoun

(photography) The degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength.

Sensitivitynoun

The quality or state of being sensitive; - used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.

Sensitivitynoun

(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli;

Sensitivitynoun

the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences;

Sensitivitynoun

sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)

Sensitivitynoun

susceptibility to a pathogen

Sensitivitynoun

the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

Sensibilitynoun

The ability to sense, feel or perceive; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity.

Sensibilitynoun

Emotional or artistic awareness; keen sensitivity to matters of feeling or creative expression.

Sensibilitynoun

Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional.

Sensibilitynoun

(in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling.

Sensibilitynoun

(obsolete) The capacity to be perceived by the senses.

Sensibilitynoun

The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

Sensibilitynoun

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.

Sensibilitynoun

Experience of sensation; actual feeling.

Sensibilitynoun

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.

Sensibilitynoun

mental responsiveness and awareness

Sensibilitynoun

refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions;

Sensibilitynoun

(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli;

Sensibility

Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another. This concept emerged in eighteenth-century Britain, and was closely associated with studies of sense perception as the means through which knowledge is gathered.