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sensibility vs sensory faculty

sensory faculty vs sensibility

sensibility and sensory faculty both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sensibility Yes No No No
sensory faculty Yes No No No
As nouns, sensory faculty is a hypernym of sensibility; that is, sensory faculty is a word with a broader meaning than sensibility:
  • sensibility: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
  • sensory faculty: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Other hypernyms of sensibility include sensation, sense, sentience, sentiency.
sensibility (noun) sensory faculty (noun)
mental responsiveness and awareness the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
Difference between sensibility and sensory faculty

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