| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers | | Section I. Affections in General | | Section IV. Possessive Relations |
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| 822. Sensibility. |
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| NOUN: | SENSIBILITY, sensibleness, sensitiveness; moral sensibility; impressibility, affectibility; susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity; mobility; vivacity, vivaciousness; tenderness, softness; sentimentality, sentimentalism.
excitability [See Excitability]; fastidiousness [See Fastidiousness]; physical sensibility [See Physical Sensibility]; sensitive plant.
SORE POINT, sore place; quick, raw; where the shoe pinches.
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| VERB: | BE SENSIBLE &c. adj.; have a tender, - warm, - sensitive- heart; be all heart.
take to heart, treasure up in the heart; shrink, wince, blench, quiver.
“die of a rose in aromatic pain” [Pope]; touch to the quick; touch -, flick one- on the raw.
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| ADJECTIVE: | SENSIBLE, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive, susceptible; alive to, impassionable, gushing [colloq.]; warm-hearted, tender-hearted, soft-hearted; tender, soft, maudlin, sentimental, romantic; enthusiastic, impassioned, highflying, spirited, mettle- some, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable [See Excitability]; oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious [See Fastidiousness].
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| ADVERB: | SENSIBLY &c. adj.; to the quick, on the raw, to the inmost core.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Mens æqua in arduis.
- Let the galled jade wince.—Hamlet
- The bravest are the tenderest.—Taylor
- If she could weep, they said, She could love, they said.—Dunsany
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