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sensibility (noun):
1: ability to receive sensations : sensitiveness
2: peculiar susceptibility to a pleasurable or painful impression (as from praise or a slight)—often used in plural
3: awareness of and responsiveness toward something (such as emotion in another)
4: refined or excessive sensitiveness in emotion and taste with especial responsiveness to the pathetic
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : The meanings of sensibility run the gamut from mere sensation to excessive sentimentality. In between is a capacity for delicate appreciation, a sense often pluralized. In Jane Austen's books, sensibility is mostly an admirable quality she attributes to, or finds lacking in, her characters: "He had ... a sensibility to what was amiable and lovely" (of Mr. Elliot in Persuasion). In Sense and Sensibility, however, Austen starts out by ascribing to Marianne sensibleness, on the one hand, but an "excess of sensibility" on the other: "Her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation ... she was everything but prudent."
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