Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Sensibility

Nouns
  • sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness
  • moral sensibility
  • impressibility, affectibility
  • susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity
  • mobility
  • vivacity, vivaciousness
  • tenderness, softness
  • sentimental, sentimentality
  • sentimentalism. excitability etc. [Excess of sensitiveness] Excitability
  • fastidiousness etc. Fastidiousness
  • physical sensibility etc. Physical Sensibility. sore point, sore place
  • where the shoe pinches.
Verbs
  • be sensible etc. adj.
  • have a tender heart, have a warm heart, have a sensitive heart. take to heart, treasure up in the heart
  • shrink. die of a rose in aromatic pain" [Pope]
  • touch to the quick
  • touch on the raw, touch a raw nerve.
Adjectives
  • sensible, sensitive
  • impressible, impressionable
  • susceptive, susceptible
  • alive to, impassionable, gushing
  • warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted
  • tender as a chicken
  • soft, sentimental, romantic
  • enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive
  • excitable etc. [Excess of sensitiveness] Excitability
  • oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned
  • fastidious etc. Fastidiousness.
Adverbs
  • sensibly etc. adj.
  • to the quick, to the inmost core.
Phrases
  • pour salt in the wound.