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Empfindsamkeit — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • sensibility noun Emotional sensitivity, especially regarding artistic, aesthetic, or moral matters.
  • sentimentality noun An excessive or self-indulgent display of tender emotion.

Senses

Empfindsamkeit is used for these senses in English:

  • sensibility (now, rare, archaic) Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional. [from 18th c.]
  • sentimentality An act or state of being sentimental.

sensibility — full definition

  1. noun Emotional sensitivity, especially regarding artistic, aesthetic, or moral matters.
  2. noun The capacity to feel or perceive through the senses.

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