Roget's Thesaurus

#822. Sensibility

Nouns

sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness; moral sensibility; impressibility, affectibility; susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity; mobility; vivacity, vivaciousness; tenderness, softness; sentimental, sentimentality; sentimentalism. excitability etc. 825; fastidiousness etc. 868; physical sensibility etc. 375. sore point, sore place; where the shoe pinches.

Verbs

be sensible etc. 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.

Adjectives

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 etc. 825; oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious etc. 868.

Adverbs

sensibly etc. adj.; to the quick, to the inmost core.

Phrases

mens aequa in arduis [Lat.]; pour salt in the wound.