Sensibility vs Delicacy - What's the difference?
sensibility | delicacy |
The ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another
(chiefly, in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling
The quality of being delicate.
Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement -a Chinese delicacy
Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
Frailty of health or fitness.
Refinement in taste or discrimination.
Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.
As nouns the difference between sensibility and delicacy
is that sensibility is the ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another while delicacy is the quality of being delicate.sensibility
English
Noun
(sensibilities)- 'I think sensibility is important in a relationship.'
- 'I apologize if I offended your sensibilities, but that's the truth of the matter.'
