sensibility

Plural: sensibilities

Noun

• mental responsiveness and awareness
• refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
  • "cruelty offended his sensibility"
• (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
• The ability to sense, feel or perceive; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity.
• Emotional or artistic awareness; keen sensitivity to matters of feeling or creative expression.
• Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional.
• An acute awareness or feeling.
• The capacity to be perceived by the senses.

Examples

• I apologize if I offended your sensibilities, but that's the truth of the matter.

Synonyms

aesthesia, esthesia, sensitiveness, sensitivity

Antonyms

insensibility