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f impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural. "Sensibilities so fine!" Cowper. The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. Burke. His sensibil…

See Hyperæsthesia.

The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.

To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate.

reign to their proper harmony. -- Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subjective sensations of color which often result from the contemplation of actually colored bodies. -- Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which…

Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.

pon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.

Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anæsthetic effect or operation.

Absence of sensibility to pain. Quain.

Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.

rality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.

To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.

Insensibility. "The bruteness of nature." Emerson.

Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.

ca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain.

Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.

Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.

A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses. Dunglison.