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SENSIBLENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sensibleness mean?
• SENSIBLENESS (noun)
The noun SENSIBLENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of showing good sense or practical judgment
Familiarity information: SENSIBLENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of showing good sense or practical judgment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sensibleness" is a kind of...):
practicality (concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities)
reasonableness (goodness of reason and judgment)
Derivation:
sensible (aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed)
sensible (showing reason or sound judgment)
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