How to say "sensibility" in Japanese

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  • 情操じょうそうCommon
    nounSensibility in the artistic or moral sense: feeling that is cultivated and refined, close to 'taste' or 'sentiment'. Typical of talk about nurturing or evaluating a person's feeling and taste.
  • 感受性かんじゅせいCommon
    nounSensibility as a capacity: how keenly a person feels and responds to art, beauty, or experience. This is the word for 'sensibility' meaning sensitivity or receptivity, often described as rich or acute.

Use 情操 for sensibility as cultivated artistic or moral feeling and taste, and 感受性 for sensibility as a person's sensitivity or receptivity — the capacity to be moved by what one encounters.

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