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sensitiveness
sen·si·tive S0267000 (sĕn′sĭ-tĭv)adj.1. Capable of perceiving with a sense or senses: Aristotle held that animals have a sensitive soul, but only humans have a rational one.2. Responsive or capable of responding to a chemical stimulus or substance. Used especially of a cell, tissue, or organism.3. a. Susceptible to slight differences or changes in the environment: a plant that is sensitive to rapid changes in temperature; heat-sensitive enzymes.b. Readily altered by the action of an agent: film that is sensitive to light.c. Registering slight differences or changes of condition. Used of an instrument.4. a. Easily irritated: sensitive skin.b. Predisposed to inflammation as a result of preexisting allergy or disease: People with celiac disease are sensitive to gluten.5. a. Aware of or careful about the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others: The book is a sensitive treatment of a troubled friendship.b. Easily hurt, upset, or offended: Teenagers tend to be especially sensitive about their appearance.6. Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price: sensitive stocks.7. Of or relating to secret or classified information: sensitive defense data; holds a sensitive position in the State Department.n.1. A sensitive person.2. One held to be endowed with psychic or occult powers.
[Middle English, from Old French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sēnsitīvus, from Latin sēnsus, sense; see sense.]
sen′si·tive·ly adv.sen′si·tive·ness n.Sensitiveness See Also: KINDNESS - Bruise easily like a ripe pear —A. C. Greene
- Ego … as delicate as tissue paper —Christopher Buckley
- Exposed as if on a raft —Joseph Conrad
- Felt like a shell-fish that had lost its shell —Olivia Manning
- Felt like a vegetable without its skin: raw and vulnerable —Laurie Colwin
- Felt myself exposed … as sharply as in a photograph —John Updike
- Gentle as milk —Sylvia Berkman
- Inherited sensibilities like jewels as red as rubies and blood —Janet Flanner
- Interpreted the episode as sensitively as an unleashed bull would —Z. Vance Wilson
- My sensibility begins to screech like chalk upon the blackboard scrawled —Delmore Schwartz
- A person who is always having her feelings hurt is about as pleasant a companion as a pebble in a shoe —Elbert Hubbard
A non-gender specific paraphrased from the original which began with “The woman.” - Sensitive as a barometer —Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Sensitive as a stick of dynamite or a hand grenade —Mike Sommer
- [An alert horse, with ears turning and twitching to catch all sounds] sensitive as radar —Jilly Cooper
- Sensitive as the leaves of a silver birch —Joseph Hergesheimer
- Sensitive as the money market —Thomas Hardy
- (Taste buds as) sensitive as the skin on a mailman’s feet —Ira Wood
- Thick-skinned as a brontosaurus —Francis Goldwin, quoted on his sensitiveness to anything but imitations of his company’s toy dinosaurs, Wall Street Journal, June 15, 1987
- Touchy as a second degree burn —Harry Prince
- Vulnerable as one of those primitive creatures between two skins or two shells, like a lobster or a crab —David R. Slavitt
- (You are) vulnerable as the first buds of the maple —Marge Piercy
- With all her stubbornness and punch, she could be sliced like scrapple —Sharon Sheehe Stark
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | sensitiveness - sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)sensitivityfeeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"oversensitiveness - sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upsetsensibility - refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility"feelings - emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity); "the remark hurt his feelings" | | 2. |  sensitiveness - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"sensitivity, sensibilitysensory faculty, sentiency, sentience, sense, sensation - the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"acuteness - a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed; "dogs have a remarkable acuteness of smell"hypersensitivity - extreme sensitivityreactivity, responsiveness - responsive to stimulationexteroception - sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the bodyinteroception - sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the bodyphotosensitivity, radiosensitivity - sensitivity to the action of radiant energyphysiology - the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms | | 3. | sensitiveness - the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"; "the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth"sensitivityphysical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactionsfrequency response - (electronics) a curve representing the output-to-input ratio of a transducer as a function of frequency | | 4. | sensitiveness - the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environmentsensitivityantenna, feeler - sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ; "he had a special antenna for public relations"defensiveness - excessive sensitivity to criticism; "his defensiveness was manifested in hurt silence"; "the fear of being sued for malpractice has magnified physicians' defensiveness"perceptiveness - the quality of insight and sympathetic understandingability - the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishmentinsensitiveness, insensitivity - the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment |
sensitivenessnoun1. The capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus:feeling, sensation, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment.2. The quality or condition of being emotionally and intuitively sensitive:feeling, sensibility, sensitivity.Translationssensitive (ˈsensitiv) adjective1. (usually with to) strongly or easily affected (by something). sensitive skin; sensitive to light. 敏感的 敏感的2. (usually with about or to) easily hurt or offended. She is very sensitive to criticism. 容易受傷的，容易生氣的 易受伤害的，容易生气的 3. having or showing artistic good taste. a sensitive writer; a sensitive performance. 藝術品味高的 艺术感觉好的ˈsensitively adverb 敏感地 敏感地ˈsensitiveness noun 敏感 敏感ˌsensiˈtivity noun 敏感性 敏感性EncyclopediaSeesensitivesensitiveness
Synonyms for sensitivenessnoun the capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulusSynonyms- feeling
- sensation
- sense
- sensibility
- sensitivity
- sentiment
noun the quality or condition of being emotionally and intuitively sensitiveSynonyms- feeling
- sensibility
- sensitivity
Synonyms for sensitivenessnoun sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)SynonymsRelated Words- feeling
- oversensitiveness
- sensibility
- feelings
noun (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuliSynonymsRelated Words- sensory faculty
- sentiency
- sentience
- sense
- sensation
- acuteness
- hypersensitivity
- reactivity
- responsiveness
- exteroception
- interoception
- photosensitivity
- radiosensitivity
- physiology
noun the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differencesSynonymsRelated Words- physical property
- frequency response
noun the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environmentSynonymsRelated Words- antenna
- feeler
- defensiveness
- perceptiveness
- ability
Antonyms- insensitiveness
- insensitivity
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