Sense vs. Sensibility
Difference Between Sense and Sensibility
Sensenoun
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
Sensibilitynoun
The ability to sense, feel or perceive; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity.
Sensenoun
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
a sense of securitySensibilitynoun
Emotional or artistic awareness; keen sensitivity to matters of feeling or creative expression.
Sensenoun
Sound practical or moral judgment.
It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.Sensibilitynoun
Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional.
Sensenoun
The meaning, reason, or value of something.
You don’t make any sense.the true sense of words or phrasesSensibilitynoun
(in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling.
I apologize if I offended your sensibilities, but that's the truth of the matter.Sensenoun
A natural appreciation or ability.
A keen musical senseSensibilitynoun
(obsolete) The capacity to be perceived by the senses.
Sensenoun
(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
Sensibilitynoun
mental responsiveness and awareness
Sensenoun
(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
Sensibilitynoun
refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions;
cruelty offended his sensibilitySensenoun
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
Sensibilitynoun
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli;
sensitivity to painSensenoun
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
Sensenoun
(biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
Senseverb
To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
Senseverb
To instinctively be aware.
She immediately sensed her disdain.Senseverb
To comprehend.
Sensenoun
a general conscious awareness;
a sense of securitya sense of happinessa sense of dangera sense of selfSensenoun
the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted;
the dictionary gave several senses for the wordin the best sense charity is really a dutythe signifier is linked to the signifiedSensenoun
the faculty through which the external world is apprehended;
in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearingSensenoun
sound practical judgment;
I can't see the sense in doing it nowhe hasn't got the sense God gave little green applesfortunately she had the good sense to run awaySensenoun
a natural appreciation or ability;
a keen musical sensea good sense of timingSenseverb
perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles;
He felt the windShe felt an object brushing her armHe felt his flesh crawlShe felt the heat when she got out of the carSenseverb
detect some circumstance or entity automatically;
This robot can sense the presence of people in the roomparticle detectors sense ionizationSenseverb
become aware of not through the senses but instinctively;
I sense his hostilitySenseverb
comprehend;
I sensed the real meaning of his letter
