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UK
/sˈɛnsɪtˌɪvnəs/
]
[ US /ˈsɛnsətɪvnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛnsətɪvnəs/ ]
NOUN
- the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
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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 -
(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
sensitivity to pain - sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
How To Use sensitiveness In A Sentence
- The diligence, tolerance and persistence of cows and their sensitiveness to how we treat them demonstrates to us that we must respect life.
- The sphere s should be small and of uniform thickness; any dissymmetry of course has the effect to diminish the sensitiveness. Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
- He also speaks of the sensitiveness of "plasm," or the substance of "living bodies," as being "only a superior degree of the general irritability of substance. A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga
- The French call sensitiveness to insignificant and worthless things, the German way of quarreling (faire querelle d'allemand). Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
- Thus, the Moon provides intuition and sensitiveness when positioned in a water sign, and the desire to internally experience the Sun's drive.
- Their sensitiveness is a thing we have been trained, for self-defence, to repress. The Growth of the Soil
- M. Krempe was not equally docile; and in my condition at that time, of almost insupportable sensitiveness, his harsh blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of M. Waldman. Chapter 5
- It may be that she needs her eyes open because the seeing of the members of the family may heighten by a kind of autosuggestion her sensitiveness for the perception of the slight signs. Psychology and Social Sanity
- It dissects (a shade too scientifically and cold-bloodedly at times perhaps) the sentiments and emotions associated with attack and defence; the impulses that eventuate in heroism; the alternating super-sensitiveness and callousness of the nerves; fear and the mastery of fear; the 'hope deferred that maketh the heart sick'; the devious stratagems of the terrible 'cafard' (blues). The Jervaise Comedy
- The Japanese desire to conform to the customs and appearances of those about him is due to what I have called sensitiveness; his success is due to the flexibility of his mental constitution. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
