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Definition: SENSIBILITIES |
SENSIBILITIESPlural1. Of Sensibility |
Date "SENSIBILITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references) |
Crosswords: SENSIBILITIES |
| English words defined with "SENSIBILITIES": artistic ♦ disgraceful ♦ scandalous, shameful, shocking. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SENSIBILITIES": Chrysanthemum ♦ Daggers ♦ Melancholy Jacques. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ok, I need two people with keen feminine sensibilities to decorate Steven's party so it's Jackie and Fez. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Barry Humphries | There is perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. |
Thomas De Quincey | Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Products with features that cater to these sensibilities will have good prospects. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SENSIBILITIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SENSIBILITIES" is used about 139 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 139 | 26,913 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SENSIBILITIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | حساسية (allergy, impressionability, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentimentality, susceptibility, vulnerability), إدراك (appreciation, apprehension, cognizance, comprehension, conception, grasp, intelligence, knowledge, maturity, puberty, pubescence, realization, reason, recognition, responsiveness, savvy, science, sense, senses, sensibility, smart, understanding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 感觉 (Feeling, feelings, sensation, sense, sensed, sensibility, sensing, sensorial). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | susceptibilité (selective susceptibility, sensitiveness), sensibilité (sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitivity coefficient, sensitivity of a measuring assembly, sensitivity of a measuring instrument). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | καλαισθησία (aesthetics, artistry, elegance, elegancy, good taste). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 감각 (sensibility). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ensibilitiessay susceptibilidad (sensitiveness, sensitivity, susceptibility, thin skin, touchiness). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SENSIBILITIES": insensibilities. (additional references) | |
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"SENSIBILITIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sensibilite, snsibilities. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SENSIBILITIES" (pronounced se'nsubi"lutēz) |
| 10 | -n s u b i" l u t ē z | responsibilities. |
| 9 | -s u b i" l u t ē z | disabilities, disability, possibilities. |
| 8 | -u b i" l u t ē z | abilities, availabilities, capabilities, instabilities, liabilities, probabilities, vulnerabilities. |
| 6 | -i" l u t ē z | facilities, hostilities, utilities. |
| 5 | -l u t ē z | abnormalities, banalities, brutalities, causalities, commonalities, fatalities, fidelities, formalities, generalities, illegalities, inequalities, infidelities, legalities, localities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, personalities, principalities, qualities, realities, technicalities, tonalities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | absurdities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, animosities, annuities, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, calamities, capacities, cavities, celebrities, charities, commodities, communities, complexities, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, disparities, divinities, eccentricities, enmities, entities, equities, extremities, festivities, fraternities, gratuities, humanities, humanity, identities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequities, infirmities, insecurities, intensities, irregularities, liquidities, majorities, maturities, minorities, necessities, niceties, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, parities, peculiarities, pieties, priorities, proclivities, propensities, quantities, rarities, rigidities, securities, sensitivities, similarities, societies, sororities, unfamiliarities, universities, vanities, varieties, velocities, verities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-i-i-i-l-n-s-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: senilities, sensiblest. | |
-4 letters: sensibles, sensitise, stilbenes. | |
-5 letters: lenities, sensible, sestines, setlines, sienites, stibines, stilbene, tensible. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-i-i-i-l-n-s-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: insensibilities. | |
+3 letters: dispensabilities, distensibilities, responsibilities. | |
+4 letters: inaccessibilities. | |
+5 letters: indispensabilities, inexpressibilities, insusceptibilities, irresponsibilities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 45 4E 53 49 42 49 4C 49 54 49 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -. ... .. -... .. .-.. .. - .. . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000101 01001110 01010011 01001001 01000010 01001001 01001100 01001001 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S E N S I B I L I T I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0045 004E 0053 0049 0042 0049 004C 0049 0054 0049 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53394853433643464354433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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