This adds greatly to my sensibility.
Burke.
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.
Syn. -- Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See Taste.
Sen"si*ble (?), a. [F., fr. L. sensibilis, fr. sensus sense.] 1.
Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the
bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an
impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; &?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;
heat; sensible resistance.
Air is sensible to the touch by its motion.
Arbuthnot.
The disgrace was more sensible than the pain.
Sir W. Temple.
Any very sensible effect upon the prices of things.
A. Smith.
2. Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects;
capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs;
liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.
Would your cambric were sensible as your finger.
Shak.
3. Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having
nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or
affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer. "With
affection wondrous sensible." Shak.
4. Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind;
cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied;
persuaded.
He [man] can not think at any time, waking or sleeping, without
being sensible of it.
Locke.
They are now sensible it would have been better to comply than to
refuse.
Addison.
5. Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or
evil.
6. Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or
characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.
Now a sensible man, by and by a fool.
Shak.
Sensible note or tone (Mus.), the major seventh note of any scale; --
so called because, being but a half step below the octave, or key tone,
and naturally leading up to that, it makes the ear sensible of its
approaching sound. Called also the leading tone. -- Sensible horizon.
See Horizon, n., 2. (a).
Syn. -- Intelligent; wise. -- Sensible, Intelligent. We call a man
sensible whose judgments and conduct are marked and governed by sound
judgment or good common semse. We call one intelligent who is quick and
clear in his understanding, i. e., who discriminates readily and nicely
in respect to difficult and important distinction. The sphere of the
sensible man lies in matters of practical concern; of the intelligent
man, in subjects of intellectual interest. "I have been tired with
accounts from sensible men, furnished with matters of fact which have
happened within their own knowledge." Addison. "Trace out numerous
footsteps . . . of a most wise and intelligent architect throughout all
this stupendous fabric." Woodward.
Sen"si*ble (?), n. 1. Sensation; sensibility. [R.] "Our temper changed
. . . which must needs remove the sensible of pain." Milton.