passibility means the quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. It carries an Arena rating of 1511, earned across 107 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, passibility ranks #1,251 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #5,419 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #6,060 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #6,156 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words.
Why “passibility” is a great word
PASSIBILITY — [Noun] The quality or state of being capable of feeling, especially of suffering or being affected by external forces. From Late Latin *passibilitas*, from Latin *passibilis* ("capable of feeling or suffering"), itself from *passus*, past participle of *pati* ("to suffer, endure"). Unlike "impassibility," which denotes a theological ideal of absolute immunity, or "insensibility," which describes a mere absence of awareness, passibility is the foundational aptitude for experience. It is the skin that flushes in shame, the heart that contracts at sudden loss, and the silent weathering of a cliff face by the sea—the raw, unshielded fact of being a creature that can be marked, which is the only condition that makes being alive matter.
Etymology
From Latin passibilitas. Compare French passibilité.
noun
- The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.e.g.“the passibility of the matter of the Heavens” — 1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, […], →OCLC:
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