sensibilityn.[Cf. F. sensibilit, LL. sensibilitas.]1. (Physiol.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.()2. 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.(Cowper.)The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. (Burke.)His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. (Marshall.)3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling.()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.()()