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感受性 (かんじゅせい) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word JLPT N1 Freq. Frequency Top 50,000 Meanings 1
noun
sensitivity ; sensibility ; receptivity
Refers to a person's capacity to be emotionally or aesthetically affected by external stimuli; often used in psychological, artistic, or everyday contexts to describe someone's perceptiveness or susceptibility.
芸げい 術じゅつ 家か に は 鋭するど い 感かん 受じゅ 性せい が 必ひつ 要よう だ 。
An artist needs a keen sensibility.
Kanji 感 emotion, feeling, sensation 受 accept, undergo, answer (phone) Similar words 敏びん 感かん 敏感 is an adjective meaning 'sensitive' in a more reactive or easily affected sense, often physical or emotional; 感受性 is a noun describing the capacity or quality of being receptive.
感かん 性せい 感性 refers to one's innate sense or aesthetic sensibility, closer to 'taste' or 'intuition'; 感受性 emphasizes the ability to receive and be affected by impressions.
Etymology Compound of 感受 (kanju, 'reception, perception') + 性 (sei, '-ity, -ness'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word follows a common Sino-Japanese pattern for abstract qualities.
