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