🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

sensibilité

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sã.si.bi.li.te

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sensibility/ˌsɛn.səˈbɪl.ə.ti/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Sa sensibilité artistique se reflète dans toutes ses peintures."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The ability to appreciate, respond to, or be acutely sensitive to complex emotional, aesthetic, or intellectual stimuli.

    "Her refined artistic sensibility allowed her to capture the subtle nuances of the landscape."
  2. 2

    A particular set of attitudes, beliefs, and emotional responses shared by a group or characteristic of a specific era.

    "The modern urban sensibility often values minimalism and digital connectedness."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin sensibilitas, stemming from Latin sensibilis meaning perceptible by the senses. Entering Middle English via Old French in the 14th century, the term originally denoted the capacity for physical sensation before evolving during the 18th-century Enlightenment to signify emotional refinement, susceptibility to deep feeling, and aesthetic appreciation.

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