| NOUN | cognition | sensibility, esthesia, aesthesia | mental responsiveness and awareness |
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| feeling | sensibility | refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions | |
| cognition | sensibility, sensitivity, sensitiveness | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli |
| Sounds | seh.nsihbih'lihtiy | |
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| Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... | |
| Meaning | mental responsiveness and awareness. | |
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| Synonyms | esthesia, aesthesia | |
| Broader | consciousness | An alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation |
| Opposite | insensibility | A lack of sensibility |
| Spanish | aestesia, estesis, sensibilidad | |
| Catalan | estesis, sensibilitat | |
| Adjectives | sensible | able to feel or perceive |
| Meaning | refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions. | |
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| Example | "cruelty offended his sensibility" | |
| Narrower | insight, perceptiveness, perceptivity | A feeling of understanding |
| sensuousness | A sensuous feeling | |
| Broader | sensitivity, sensitiveness | sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) |
| Meaning | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation. | |
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| Synonyms | sensitivity, sensitiveness | |
| Category | physiology | The branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms |
| Narrower | acuteness | A sensitivity that is keen and highly developed |
| exteroception | sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body | |
| hypersensitivity | extreme / extreme sensitivity | |
| interoception | sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body | |
| photosensitivity, radiosensitivity | sensitivity to the action of radiant energy | |
| responsiveness, reactivity | Responsive to stimulation | |
| Broader | sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty | The faculty through which the external world is apprehended |
| Spanish | delicadeza, receptividad, sensatez, sensibilidad | |
| Catalan | sensibilitat, sensitivitat | |
| Adjectives | sensible | able to feel or perceive |
| sensible | readily perceived by the senses | |
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