Case sensibility, if it means anything, characterizes different emotional 
responses to minuscules, 'a', 'b', ... , 'z', and majuscules, 'A', 'B', ... , 
'Z', as in the poetry of e. e. cummings.  (This now learned usage was not 
always so.  It is embedded in the title of Jane Austen's novel, "Sense and 
Sensibility", which in the 18th century was immediately glossed as "Reason and 
Emotion" and is now usually passed over as an antique incuriosity.)

Case sensitivity, responsiveness to differences in case, is what is wanted in 
the current thread.  Moreover, if, as in that thread, the negative form is 
needed, it is insensitive/insensitivity not nonsensitive/nonsensitivity or 
nonsensible/nonsensibility.

John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA

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