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Sensibility vs Perception - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between sensibility and perception

is that sensibility is the ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another while perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.

sensibility

English

Noun

(sensibilities)
  • The ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another
  • 'I think sensibility is important in a relationship.'
  • (chiefly, in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling
  • 'I apologize if I offended your sensibilities, but that's the truth of the matter.'

    perception

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
  • Conscious understanding of something.
  • Vision (ability )
  • Acuity
  • (cognition ) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.
  • Synonyms

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