SENSIBILITIES: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SENSIBILITIES?

Need another word that means the same as “sensibilities”? Find 4 synonyms and 30 related words for “sensibilities” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Sensibilities” are: sensitiveness, sensitivity, aesthesia, esthesia

Sensibilities as a Noun

Definitions of "Sensibilities" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “sensibilities” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation.
• Responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation.
• Refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions.
• Mental responsiveness and awareness.

Synonyms of "Sensibilities" as a noun (4 Words)

aesthesia	Mental responsiveness and awareness.
esthesia	Mental responsiveness and awareness.
sensitiveness	Sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others. The sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth.
sensitivity	Sensitivity to emotional feelings of self and others. A galvanometer of extreme sensitivity.

Usage Examples of "Sensibilities" as a noun

• Cruelty offended his sensibility.

Associations of "Sensibilities" (30 Words)

affective	Denoting or relating to mental disorders in which disturbance of mood is the primary symptom. Affective disorders.
awareness	Concern about and well-informed interest in a particular situation or development. There is a lack of awareness of the risks.
bathetic	Effusively or insincerely emotional. A bathetic novel.
cathartic	Emotionally purging (of e.g. art. Crying is a cathartic release.
cognition	A perception sensation idea or intuition resulting from the process of cognition.
emotion	Instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge. Responses have to be based on historical insight not simply on emotion.
emotional	Arousing or characterized by intense feeling. His behavior was highly emotional.
empathy	The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
feeling	An attitude or opinion. A feeling of joy.
maladjustment	Failure to cope with the demands of a normal social environment. Economic maladjustment left the currency hopelessly vulnerable.
maudlin	Effusively or insincerely emotional. A maudlin jukebox tune.
mawkish	Having a faint sickly flavour. A mawkish ode to parenthood.
melodrama	The genre of melodrama. What little is known of his early life is cloaked in melodrama.
mental	Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw. Mental suffering.
mind	Keep in mind. He reads to improve his mind.
mood	(especially of music) inducing or suggestive of a particular feeling or state of mind. He was obviously in a mood.
moody	Giving an impression of melancholy or mystery. Grainy film which gives a soft moody effect.
pathos	A quality that evokes pity or sadness. The film captured all the pathos of their situation.
prosody	Prosody a system of versification. The translator is not obliged to reproduce the prosody of the original.
psychological	Of, affecting, or arising in the mind; related to the mental and emotional state of a person. Psychological research.
psychologist	A scientist trained in psychology. A sports psychologist.
psychology	The mental factors governing a situation or activity. The psychology of interpersonal relationships.
sensitiveness	The ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment. The sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth.
sentiment	Tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion. I agree with your sentiments regarding the road bridge.
sentimental	Given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality. A sentimental ballad.
susceptibility	The ratio of magnetization produced in a material to the magnetizing force. Lack of exercise increases susceptibility to disease.
thought	Careful consideration or attention. Darwinian thought.
touched	Slightly mad; crazy. Very touched by the stranger s kindness.
transference	The redirection to a substitute usually a therapist of emotions that were originally felt in childhood in a phase of analysis called transference neurosis. Therapy is aided by the patient s transference to the analyst as mother.
unsentimental	Facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination. The speeches were short and unsentimental.