hypersensitive
/hʌɪpəˈsɛnsɪtɪv
/adjective
1Having extreme physical sensitivity to particular substances or conditions.The necessity of avoiding irritating substances can force hypersensitive subjects to make numerous lifestyle changes....
- The skin is extremely painful and hypersensitive, even to air movement.
- This is a type of hypersensitive reaction triggered by exposure to an antigen (a substance which the body recognises as alien).
2Easily hurt, worried, or offended: proximity to death makes people hypersensitive and aware...
- The key to training these children is in understanding that they are hypersensitive and easily hurt.
- I didn't mean to annoy anyone, but it occurs to me that, since I don't have advertising on this site, it doesn't really matter how many hypersensitive Americans I offend.
- First, be aware that teenagers are hypersensitive about their changing body shapes and weight - so the less you focus on this, the better.
Derivatives
hypersensitiveness
- In the case of systemic hypersensitiveness reactions it may be necessary to initiate emergency measures.
- In other words, immunity against infectious agents is not a state of insensitivity, but rather a state of hypersensitiveness to constituents.
- In adults the percentage of hypersensitiveness was 90 percent in the immunized.
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