sensible
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Is sensible a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (especially formally) Able to be sensed by the senses or the psyche; able to be perceived.Examples: "For Plato the belief in sensible objects is fallible."; "Air is sensible to the Touch by its Motion, and by its Resistance to Bodies moved in it."; "The sensible qualities of argentina promise no great virtue of this kind; for to the taste it discovers only a slight roughishness, from whence it may be presumed to be entitled to a place only among the milder corroborants."Synonyms: perceptible, appreciable, detectableAntonyms: insensible, imperceptible, unappreciable, undetectableespeciallyformal
2. (archaic) Able to feel or perceive.Examples: "Would your cambric were sensible as your finger."archaic
3. (archaic) Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.Examples: "a sensible thermometer"; "with affection wondrous sensible"archaic
4. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory.archaic
5. (archaic) Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.Examples: "He cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it."; "A bright Meſſenger from Heaven, made the Man of GOD ſenſible, That a Remarkable Safety ſhould be granted unto him, and therefore unto all the Company vvith Him."; "Diſingaging myſelf then from his embrace, I made him ſenſible of the reaſons there vvere for his preſent leaving me; on vvhich, tho' reluctantly, he put on his cloaths vvith as little expedition, hovvever, as he could help, vvantonly interrupting himſelf betvveen vvhiles, vvith kiſſes, touches, and embraces, I could not refuſe myſelf to; […]"archaic
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Sensation; sensibility.Examples: "Our temper changed […] which must needs remove the sensible of pain."obsolete
2. (obsolete) That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.Examples: "Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper."; "Accordingly, with respect to their knowability or opinability, Socrates makes no distinction among the sensibles between natural things and artifacts (510a5–6); both are relegated to the realm of opinion. Hence, there is no Socratic-Platonic biology."obsolete
3. (obsolete) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.Examples: "This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary