sensibility

Etymology

sensible + -ity, from Middle French sensibilité, and its source, Latin sēnsibilitās.

noun

1. The ability to sense, feel or perceive; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity.
   The high sensibility of the divided ring electrometer renders this test really very easy […]. 2011, William Thomson, Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism, page 204
2. Emotional or artistic awareness; keen sensitivity to matters of feeling or creative expression.
   By poetic ethic I am speaking about the intention to act on, and incorporate into a narrative configuration, values and beliefs that promote a poetic ontology and a poetic sensibility. 2015, Kathleen T. Galvin, Monica Prendergast, Poetic Inquiry II, page 266
3. (now rare, archaic) Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional.
4. (in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling.
   I apologize if I offended your sensibilities, but that's the truth of the matter.
   However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers[.] 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11
5. (obsolete) The capacity to be perceived by the senses.