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sensibility 1. the ability to perceive or feel 2. the condition of a plant of being susceptible to external influences, esp attack by parasites sensibility [‚sen·sə′bil·əd·ē] (physics) The ability of a magnetic compass card to align itself with the magnetic meridian after deflection. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A sensibility too tremblingly alive to every affliction of my Freinds, my Acquaintance and particularly to every affliction of my own, was my only fault, if a fault it could be called. You will think, perhaps, that I must have been a poet, from this early sensibility to Nature. Wordsworth's own character, as we have already observed, was dominated by a certain contentment, a sort of naturally religious placidity, not often found in union with a poetic sensibility so [97] active as his; and this gentle sense of well-being was favourable to the quiet, habitual observation of the inanimate, or imperfectly animate, world. |
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