hypersensitivenessn.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxvii. 112 As private as the utmost hypersensitiveness could desire.

1898 W. Scheppegrell Electr. in Dis. Nose, Throat & Ear xxi. 218 In hyperesthetic rhinitis, Sajous recommends that each point of hypersensitiveness be destroyed by means of the electrocautery.

1917 B. Glueck & J. E. Lind tr. A. Adler Neurotic Constit. (1921) 164 Every one who has become acquainted with the hypersensitiveness of neurotic subjects knows with what slight cause they feel themselves to be undervalued.

1939 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. W. Stekel Technique Analyt. Psychotherapy xxi. 327 A persistent illusion of a bad smell, disturbances of taste,..may all be indications of an uneasy conscience; so may hypersensitiveness of certain areas of skin.

1951 I. Compton-Burnett Darkness & Day 21 One feels that being alive to all the troubles about one is a sign of sensitiveness and feeling, when it may be hypersensitiveness and trying for other people.

1906 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 29 Sept. 1009/1 As far as we know, this is the first recorded instance in which hypersensitiveness, or anaphylaxis, has been experimentally shown to be transmitted from a mother to her young.

1922 Jrnl. Immunol. 7 128 The condition now known as human hypersensitiveness or allergy.

1940 S. W. Becker & M. E. Obermayer Mod. Dermatol. & Syphilol. vii. 75/2 The resulting inflammation is of the vesicular type, but a condition of hypersensitiveness does not have to be considered, since everyone's skin reacts to this solution.

1953 F. K. Hansel Clin. Allergy iii. 58 The existence of an inherited predisposition is certainly not a prerequisite to the development of hypersensitiveness.