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  • English Word Sensible Definition Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.
  • English Word Sensible Definition Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.
  • English Word Sensible Definition Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.
  • English Word Sensible Definition Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.
  • English Word Sensible Definition Sensation; sensibility.
  • English Word Sensible Definition That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.
  • English Word Sensible Definition That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
  • English Word Sensibleness Definition The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.
  • English Word Sensibleness Definition Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.
  • English Word Sensibly Definition In a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively.
  • English Word Sensibly Definition With intelligence or good sense; judiciously.
  • English Word Sensifacient Definition Converting into sensation.
  • English Word Sensiferous Definition Exciting sensation; conveying sensation.
  • English Word Sensific Definition Exciting sensation.
  • English Word Sensificatory Definition Susceptible of, or converting into, sensation; as, the sensificatory part of a nervous system.
  • English Word Sensigenous Definition Causing or exciting sensation.
  • English Word Sensing Definition of Sense
  • English Word Sensism Definition Same as Sensualism, 2 & 3.
  • English Word Sensist Definition One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.
  • English Word Sensitive Definition Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.
  • English Word Sensitive Definition Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.
  • English Word Sensitive Definition Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
  • English Word Sensitive Definition Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.
  • English Word Sensitive Definition Serving to affect the sense; sensible.
  • English Word Sensitive Definition Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
  • English Word Sensitivity Definition The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.
  • English Word Sensitize Definition To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.
  • English Word Sensitizer Definition An agent that sensitizes.
  • English Word Sensitory Definition See Sensory.
  • English Word Sensive Definition Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.