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词汇 sensibility
释义 sensibility
noun
uk /ˌsen.səˈbɪl.ə.ti/ us /ˌsen.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
C2[ U ]
an understanding of or ability to decide about what is good or valuable, especially in connection with artistic or social activities: (尤指艺术或社会活动方面的)鉴赏力,感受能力
literary/musical/artistic/theatrical/aesthetic sensibility文学/音乐/艺术/戏剧/美学鉴赏力
The author has applied a modern sensibility (= way of understanding things) to the social ideals of an earlier age.作者对较早期的社会理想采用了一种现代的理解方法。
 sensibilities[ plural ]
feelings: 感情
sensibilities ofIn a multicultural society we need to show respect for the sensibilities of others.在多元文化的社会中,我们需要尊重他人的感情。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Knowledge and awareness
acquaintance
alertness
as every schoolboy/schoolchild knowsidiom
astuteness
at/in the back of your mindidiom
experientially
familiarity
firsthand
general knowledge
gnostic
lived experience
metacognition
nescience
nescient
nod
off someone's radaridiom
street smarts
theory of mind
visual literacy
witting

sensibility | American Dictionary


sensibility
noun
us/ˌsen·səˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
the ability to feel and react to something:
[ U ]Those attitudes are offensive to the modern sensibility.
[ pl ]He launched a crusade against publicly funded art that offended his moral sensibilities.

Examples of sensibility


sensibility
Medically, their absence of inner heat, susceptible temperaments, pale countenances and enervated sensibilities bore out their emptiness of being.
Such events see the patron's own sensibilities meander through very different architectural cultures.
His nonconformism attracted a countercultural audience whom he mocked and a college audience whose left and liberal sensibilities he delighted in offending.
His theory is sufficiently general to support many different sensibilities in the interpretation of it.
The cosmopolitan meanings ascribed to recordings had a particularly strong impact on the development of local urban sensibilities and cultural practices.
One such claim is that the controversy was not so much a conflict of ideas, but a clash of egos, ambitions, sensibilities, and the like.
What is intriguing is that negative priming studies emphasizing body position and spatial sensibilities demonstrate the "embodiment" of the processes of suppression.
Although this may seem natural to our current sensibilities (why would government schools turn out shaykhs?), it nevertheless represents a significant displacement.
The second point requires that the varied "constructivist" sensibilities about science must be extended to the forms of economic calculation that provide its context.
The first must be education to feed the sensibilities and historical understanding of the population.
Presumably because science holds a far stronger and more central place in modern sensibilities than steamships do.
They show, for instance, how music can be used within fiction to indicate the feelings and sensibilities of the characters.
The sheer effort of creation takes too great a toll of the sensibilities.
In jazz, modernism challenged an aesthetic establishment within the sensibilities of popular entertainment.
Cross-cultural change, especially in urban areas, would still logically be low because of renewed group sensibilities.
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