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Home Dictionary Name: sensibilitySensibleness
The quality or state of being sensible sensibility appreciation capacity of perception susceptibility...
Sensibility
The quality or state of being sensible or capable of sensation capacity to feel or perceive...
Sensible
Capable of being perceived by the senses apprehensible through the bodily organs hence also perceptible to the mind making an impression upon the sense reason or understanding unrunrunrunrunrunr heat sensible resistance...
Sensibly
In a sensible manner so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind appreciably with perception susceptibly sensitively...
Paralgesia
Disordered sensibility to pain including absence of sensibility to pain excessive sensibility to pain and abnormal painful results of stimuli...
Collusion
Collusion [fr. collusio, Lat., fr. colludo, to unite in the same play or game, and thus to unite for the purposes of fraud or deception], an agreement or compact between two or more persons to do some act in order to prejudice a third person, or for some improper purpose. Collusion in judicial proceedings is a secret agreement between two persons that the one should institute a suit against the other, in order to obtain the decision of a judicial tribunal for some sinister purpose, and appears to be of two kinds: (1) When the facts put forward as the foundation of the sentence of the Court do not exist; (2) When they exist, but have been corruptly preconcerted for the express purpose of obtaining the sentence. In either case the judgment obtained by such collusion is a nullity. See Duchess of Kingston's case, (1776) 2 Sm. L.C. Collusion between the petitioner and either of the respondents in presenting or prosecuting a suit for dissolution of marriage is a bar to such suit by the Judic...
Irrationality
Irrationality, mean what can by now be succinctly referred to Wednesbury unreasonableness, Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service, (1984) 3 All ER 935: 1985 AC 374: (1984) 3 WLR 1174 (HL).Means what can be now be succinctly referred to as Wednesbury unreasonableness. It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it, State of NCT of Delhi v. Sanjeev, (2005) 5 SCC 181.Means what can by now be succinctly referred to as Wednesbury unreasonableness. It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it, Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service, (1984) 3 All ER 935: 1985 AC 374: (1984) 3 WLR 1174 (HL...
Benthamism
That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility also the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions...
Benumb
To make torpid to deprive of sensation or sensibility to stupefy as a hand or foot benumbed by cold...
Blaseacute
Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment sated or surfeited with pleasure uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence used up...
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