Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for December 6, 2025 is:
 
 
 
 
 sensibility &#149; \sen-suh-BIL-uh-tee\&nbsp; &#149; noun
 Sensibility is a formal word often used in its plural form to refer someone’s personal or cultural approach to what they encounter, as in “the speaker made sure to tailor his speech to the sensibilities of his audience.” Sensibility can also be used for the kind of feelings a person tends to have in general, as well as for the ability to feel and understand emotions.

// Many older cartoons feel out of line with modern sensibilities.

// She brought an artistic sensibility to every facet of her life, not just her celebrated painting.

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 Examples:
 “[Lady] Gaga’s absurdist sensibilities have long been an underrated facet of her work—probably because she’s so good at delivering them with a straight face.” — Rich Juzwiak, Pitchfork, 10 Mar. 2025
 
 
 
 Did you know?
 The meanings of sensibility <a href="https://bit.ly/3LriGsT">run the gamut</a> from mere sensation to excessive sentimentality, but we’re here to help you make sense of it all. In between is a capacity for delicate appreciation, a sense often pluralized. In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Austen">Jane Austen</a>’s books, sensibility is mostly an admirable quality she attributes to, or finds lacking in, her characters: “He had ... a sensibility to what was amiable and lovely” (of Mr. Elliot in <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Persuasion-novel-by-Austen">Persuasion</a>). In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sense-and-Sensibility">Sense and Sensibility</a>, however, Austen starts out by ascribing to Marianne <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensibleness">sensibleness</a>, on the one hand, but an “excess of sensibility” on the other: “Her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation ... she was everything but prudent.”

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