sensibility

感性、感受性

美しさや正しさ、受け入れられることについての繊細な感覚。

やさしい英語で： Sensitive feelings about what is beautiful, right, or acceptable.

• The joke offended her sensibilities.
• His artistic sensibility shaped the design of the house.
• The film challenged the audience’s moral sensibilities.

類義語： sensitivity, feelings

よく使う表現： offend someone’s sensibility, artistic sensibility, moral sensibility

感覚能力、感受性

体の感覚を通じて物事を感じたり、気づいたりする能力。

やさしい英語で： The ability to feel things through your body or become aware of them.

• The injury reduced sensibility in her hand.
• The doctor tested his sensibility to touch.
• Physical sensibility returned slowly as the nerves healed.

使い方： sensibility to something (The test measures sensibility to pain.)

類義語： sensitivity

反対語： insensitivity

よく使う表現： sensibility to something, physical sensibility