Most dictionaries translate kansei first as sensitivity, with sensibility sometimes given as a second meaning. The translators chose to use sensibility because it more closely reflects the author's intent. Sensibility, on the other hand, means, "the capacity for physical sensation: power of responding to stimuli: ability to feel" -Webster's New World Dictionary.

Related to kansei- the natural ability of children to learn directly through the five senses, without logical explanations.