sensibility

Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another. This concept emerged in eighteenth-century Britain, and was closely associated with studies of sense perception as the means through which knowledge is gathered. It also became associated with sentimental moral philosophy.
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(n.)
The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
  

(n.)
The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural.
  

(n.)
That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.
  

(n.)
Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
  

Noun
1. mental responsiveness and awareness
(antonym) insensibility
(hypernym) consciousness
2. refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility"
(hypernym) sensitivity, sensitiveness
(hyponym) insight, perceptiveness, perceptivity
3. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; "sensitivity to pain"
(synonym) sensitivity, sensitiveness
(hypernym) sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
(hyponym) hypersensitivity
(classification) physiology