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          sensibility n
           1. (countable, uncountable, often in the plural) Emotions or feelings
              arising from or relating to aesthetic or moral standards,
              especially those which are sensitive and thus likely to be hurt or
              offended.
           2. (uncountable) The ability to feel, perceive, or sense;
              responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity; also, the degree to
              which someone or something (especially a sensory organ or tissue)
              is able to respond to sensory stimuli.
           3. (uncountable) The quality of being easily affected by external
              forces or stimuli; also, of a measuring instrument: the quality of
              being able to detect small changes in the environment.
           4. (uncountable) Keen sensitivity to matters of creative expression or
              feeling; artistic or emotional awareness.
                1. (specifically, archaic) Affected or excessive artistic or
                   emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being
                   overemotional; overemotionality.
           5. (uncountable, archaic)
                1. Awareness; also, understanding.
                2. The capacity of something to be perceived by the senses;
                   perceptibility.
                3. (botany) Of a plant or one of its parts: the ability to move
                   in response to a stimulus.
           6. (uncountable, philosophy) The ability to perceive or sense as
              opposed to the ability to understand; also, in the philosophy of
              the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): emotion or
              feeling as opposed to the will.
           7. (countable, obsolete)
                1. An emotional sense or understanding of something.
                2. A sign or token of appreciation or gratitude.
       
          [20px-PointingHand.svg.png] The English novelist Jane Austen was born
          on this day 250 years ago in 1775. Her first novel, Sense and
          Sensibility, was published in 1811.