Sensibility

**Sensibility** The Romantics employed feeling and emotion in their writing - a radical idea, given that many people viewed sensibility as a purely female domain.

The Romantic Period

__ Sensibility Definition: __ *** The ability to feel or perceive; Keen intellectual perception.** ** * Mental or emotional responsiveness toward something, such as the feelings of another. **  *** Refined awareness and appreciation in matters of feeling.** *** A kind of sensitivity or responsiveness that is both aesthetic and moral, showing a capacity to feel both for others' sorrows and for beauty.** *** A way of feeling.** *** A sense of perception as the means through which knowledge is gathered.

other...** 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. http://dictionary.babylon.com/SENSIBILITY