sensibility; impressibility, affectibility†; susceptibleness,
susceptibility, susceptivity†; mobility; vivacity, vivaciousness;
tenderness, softness; sentimental, sentimentality; sentimentalism.
excitability &c 825; fastidiousness &c 868; physical sensibility
&c 375.
sore point, sore place; where the shoe pinches.
V. be sensible &c adj.; have a tender heart, have a warm heart, have a
sensitive heart.
take to heart, treasure up in the heart; shrink.
die of a rose in aromatic pain [Pope]; touch to the quick; touch
on the raw, touch a raw nerve.
Adj. sensible, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive,
susceptible; alive to, impassionable†, gushing; warm hearted, tender
hearted, soft hearted; tender as a chicken; soft, sentimental,
romantic; enthusiastic, highflying†, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious,
lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable &c 825;
oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious &c 868.
Adv. sensibly &c adj.; to the quick, to the inmost core.
Phr. mens aequa in arduis [Lat.]; pour salt in the wound.