empfindnisz

It may well be that, as Böttiger hints, the coining of the word “empfindsam” was suggested to Lessing by Abbt’s similar formation of “empfindnisz.”

Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer - Laurence Sterne in Germany: A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of: England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century