sense and sensibility

[jasonlulu_2000]

Is there any difference between "sense" and "sensibility" in the book title "sense and sensibility"?


Thanks!

Jason

 

[emsr2d2]

If there were no difference, what would be the point of using them both in the title? Would you call a book "Bicycle and Bicycle"? Have you looked both words up in several dictionaries?

 

[Raymott]

Is there any difference between "sense" and "sensibility" in the book title "sense and sensibility"?


Thanks!

Jason

"Sense" here means rationality, or common sense or 'sensibleness'
"Sensibility" means sensitivity, or 'sensitiveness'.
This contrasts the two sisters: the first is rational, characterized by thinking; the second is sensitive, characterised by feeling.
There has been a change in meanings since Jane Austen wrote this 200 years ago.