sensibility

Roget category 822

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.1. Affections in general
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#822. Sensibility

noun

sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness — moral sensibility — impressibility, affectibility^† — susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity^† — mobility — vivacity, vivaciousness — tenderness, softness — sentimental, sentimentality — sentimentalism.
excitability etc. 825 — fastidiousness etc. 868 — physical sensibility etc. 375.
sore point, sore place — where the shoe pinches.

verb

be sensible etc. adj. — have a tender heart, have a warm heart, have a sensitive heart.
take to heart, treasure up in the heart — shrink.
die of a rose in aromatic pain" [Pope]; touch to the quick — touch on the raw, touch a raw nerve.

adjective

sensible, sensitive — impressible, impressionable — susceptive, susceptible — alive to, impassionable^†, gushing — warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted — tender as a chicken — soft, sentimental, romantic — enthusiastic, highflying^†, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive — excitable etc. 825 — oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned — fastidious etc. 868.

adverb

sensibly etc. adj. — to the quick, to the inmost core.

phrase

mens aequa in arduis [Lat.] — pour salt in the wound.

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