Contents
-AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class III. Words Relating to Matter
Section III. Organic Matter
2. Sensation
1. Sensation in general
375. Physical Sensibility.
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NOUN: | SENSIBILITY; sensitiveness &c. adj.; physical sensibility, feeling, impressibility, perceptivity, susceptibility, æsthetics or esthetics; moral sensibility [See Sensibility]. SENSATION, impression; consciousness (knowledge) [See Knowledge]. external senses.
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VERB: | BE SENSIBLE OF &c. adj.; feel, perceive; feel -keenly, – exquisitely. RENDER SENSIBLE &c. adj.; sharpen, refine, excite, stir, cultivate, tutor. IMPRESS, cause sensation; excite -, produce- an impression.
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ADJECTIVE: | SENSIBLE, sensitive, sensuous; æsthetic or esthetic, perceptive, sentient; conscious (aware) [See Knowledge]; alive, alive to impressions, answering quickly to, impressionable, responsive, easily affected, quick in response. ACUTE, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned.
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ADVERB: | TO THE QUICK; on the raw [slang].
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QUOTATION: | The touch’d needle trembles to the pole.—Pope |