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sensibility vs sensation

sensation vs sensibility

sensibility and sensation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sensibility Yes No No No
sensation Yes No No No
As nouns, sensation is a hypernym of sensibility; that is, sensation is a word with a broader meaning than sensibility:
  • sensibility: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
  • sensation: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Other hypernyms of sensibility include sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency.
sensibility (noun) sensation (noun)
mental responsiveness and awareness an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
a state of widespread public excitement and interest
Difference between sensibility and sensation

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