sensibility
| In the 18th century, the capacity to identify with and feel sympathy for the suffering of others. This quality was extolled by the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, a philosopher, as well as by writers of fiction, and was lampooned in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility 1811. |
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