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Sensibility

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Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another. [1]

23 relations: A priori and a posteriori, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Emotion, Empirical evidence, Ethics, George Cheyne (physician), Henry Mackenzie, Hypochondriasis, Hysteria, Jane Austen, John Locke, Leonora (novel), Major depressive disorder, Maria Edgeworth, Narcissism, Perception, Samuel Johnson, Sense and Sensibility, Sentimental novel, Sentimentalism (literature), Sentimentality, The Idler (1758–60), The Man of Feeling.

A priori and a posteriori

The Latin phrases a priori ("from the earlier") and a posteriori ("from the latter") are philosophical terms of art popularized by Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (first published in 1781, second edition in 1787), one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy.

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding.

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Emotion

Emotion is any conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a certain degree of pleasure or displeasure.

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Empirical evidence

Empirical evidence, also known as sensory experience, is the information received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and documentation of patterns and behavior through experimentation.

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Ethics

Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.

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George Cheyne (physician)

George Cheyne M.D. R.C. E.d. R.S.S. (1671–1743) was a pioneering physician, early proto-psychologist, philosopher and mathematician.

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Henry Mackenzie

Henry Mackenzie FRSE (26 July 1745 – 14 January 1831) was a Scottish lawyer, novelist and writer.

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Hypochondriasis

Hypochondriasis or hypochondria is a condition in which a person is excessively and unduly worried about having a serious illness.

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Hysteria

Hysteria, in the colloquial use of the term, means ungovernable emotional excess.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

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Leonora (novel)

Leonora is a novel written by Maria Edgeworth and published in 1806.

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Major depressive disorder

Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known simply as depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present across most situations.

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Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature.

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Narcissism

Narcissism is the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one's own attributes.

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Perception

Perception (from the Latin perceptio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.

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Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811.

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Sentimental novel

The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th-century literary genre which celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility.

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Sentimentalism (literature)

Sentimentalism is a practice of being sentimental, and thus tending toward basing actions and reactions upon emotions and feelings, in preference to reason.

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Sentimentality

Sentimentality originally indicated the reliance on feelings as a guide to truth, but current usage defines it as an appeal to shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason.

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The Idler (1758–60)

The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the Universal Chronicle between 1758 and 1760.

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The Man of Feeling

The Man of Feeling is a sentimental novel published in 1771, written by Scottish author Henry Mackenzie.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensibility

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