physical sensibility, feeling, impressibility, perceptivity,
aesthetics; moral sensibility &c 822.
sensation, impression; consciousness &c (knowledge) 490.
external senses.
V. be sensible of &c adj.; feel, perceive.
render sensible &c adj.; sharpen, cultivate, tutor.
cause sensation, impress; excite an impression, produce an
impression.
Adj. sensible, sensitive, sensuous; aesthetic, perceptive, sentient;
conscious &c (aware) 490.
acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned.
Adv. to the quick.
Phr. the touch'd needle trembles to the pole [Pope].