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sensibility vs insight

insight vs sensibility

sensibility and insight both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sensibility Yes No No No
insight Yes No No No
As nouns, insight is a hyponym of sensibility; that is, insight is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sensibility:
  • sensibility: refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
  • insight: a feeling of understanding
Other hyponyms of sensibility include perceptiveness, perceptivity, sensuousness.
sensibility (noun) insight (noun)
mental responsiveness and awareness grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation
refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions clear or deep perception of a situation
a feeling of understanding
Difference between sensibility and insight

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