Sensible vs Identical - What's the difference?
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Perceptible by the senses.
* Arbuthnot
* 1778 , William Lewis, The New Dispensatory (page 91)
* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, page 45:
Easily perceived; appreciable.
* Sir W. Temple
* Adam Smith
(archaic) Able to feel or perceive.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.
* Shakespeare
Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory.
(archaic) Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.
* John Locke
* Addison
Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason.
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Characterized more by usefulness or practicality than by fashionableness, especially of clothing.
* 1999 , Neil Gaiman, Stardust (2001 Perennial Edition), page 8,
(obsolete) Sensation; sensibility.
* Milton
(obsolete) That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.
* Krauth-Fleming
(obsolete) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
* Burton
(not comparable) Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
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(not comparable) Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.
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(not comparable, biology) Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
(not comparable, mathematics) Exactly equivalent.
(comparable, rare) Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.
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(usually, pluralized, chiefly, philosophy) Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
As adjectives the difference between sensible and identical
is that sensible is perceptible by the senses while identical is bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.As nouns the difference between sensible and identical
is that sensible is sensation; sensibility while identical is something which has exactly the same properties as something else.sensible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Air is sensible to the touch by its motion.
- 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.
- It has been vouchsafed, for example, to very few Christian believers to have had a sensible vision of their Saviour.
- The disgrace was more sensible than the pain.
- The discovery of the mines of America does not seem to have had any very sensible effect upon the prices of things in England.
- Would your cambric were sensible as your finger.
- a sensible thermometer
- with affection wondrous sensible
- He cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
- They are now sensible it would have been better to comply than to refuse.
- They ask questions of someone who thinks he's got something sensible to say on some matter when actually he hasn't.
- They would walk, on fair evenings, around the village, and discuss the theory of crop rotation, and the weather, and other such sensible matters.
Usage notes
* "Sensible" describes the reasonable way in which a person may think'' about things or ''do things: *: It wouldn't be sensible to start all over again now. * "Sensitive" describes an emotional way in which a person may react to things: *: He has always been a sensitive child. *: I didn’t realize she was so sensitive about her work.Noun
(en noun)- Our temper changed which must needs remove the sensible of pain.
- Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper.
- This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles .
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The terms of Article 8th are still more identical .