Informed vs Sensible - What's the difference?
informed | sensible |
(inform)
Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 696:
(obsolete) Created, given form.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
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.
* 2005 , .
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
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between informed and sensible
is that informed is (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless while sensible is (obsolete) that which has sensibility; a sensitive being.As adjectives the difference between informed and sensible
is that informed is instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education or informed can be (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless while sensible is perceptible by the senses.As a verb informed
is (inform).As a noun sensible is
(obsolete) sensation; sensibility.informed
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Another informed and sobering estimate is that by 1800 indigenous populations in the western hemisphere were a tenth of what they had been three centuries before.
- after Nilus invndation, / Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, / Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.
Etymology 2
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 .