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Supersensitive

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Su`per`sen´si`tive
a.1.Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive.
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Adj.1.Supersensitivesupersensitive - having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen"
hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitized, allergic
susceptible - (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof"


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All this was taken very much for granted, as a rule, but now and then some supersensitive person made violent objections to it, as a theory of life.
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But with the self-combating proclivity of the supersensitive, an answer thereto arose in Clare's own mind, and he almost feared it.
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She was described as a slender wisp of a girl, delicately featured and with a nervous organization of the supersensitive order.
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