sensitiveness

sen·si·tive

 (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.

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[Middle English, from Old French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sēnsitīvus, from Latin sēnsus, sense; see sense.]

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sen′si·tive·ly adv.

sen′si·tive·ness n.

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Sensitiveness

 

See Also: KINDNESS

1. Bruise easily like a ripe pear —A. C. Greene
2. Ego … as delicate as tissue paper —Christopher Buckley
3. Exposed as if on a raft —Joseph Conrad
4. Felt like a shell-fish that had lost its shell —Olivia Manning
5. Felt like a vegetable without its skin: raw and vulnerable —Laurie Colwin
6. Felt myself exposed … as sharply as in a photograph —John Updike
7. Gentle as milk —Sylvia Berkman
8. Inherited sensibilities like jewels as red as rubies and blood —Janet Flanner
9. Interpreted the episode as sensitively as an unleashed bull would —Z. Vance Wilson
10. My sensibility begins to screech like chalk upon the blackboard scrawled —Delmore Schwartz
11. 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.”

12. Sensitive as a barometer —Thomas Bailey Aldrich
13. Sensitive as a stick of dynamite or a hand grenade —Mike Sommer
14. [An alert horse, with ears turning and twitching to catch all sounds] sensitive as radar —Jilly Cooper
15. Sensitive as the leaves of a silver birch —Joseph Hergesheimer
16. Sensitive as the money market —Thomas Hardy
17. (Taste buds as) sensitive as the skin on a mailman’s feet —Ira Wood
18. 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
19. Touchy as a second degree burn —Harry Prince
20. Vulnerable as one of those primitive creatures between two skins or two shells, like a lobster or a crab —David R. Slavitt
21. (You are) vulnerable as the first buds of the maple —Marge Piercy
22. With all her stubbornness and punch, she could be sliced like scrapple —Sharon Sheehe Stark

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sensitiveness - sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) sensitivity feeling - 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 upset sensibility - 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, sensibility sensory 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 sensitivity reactivity, responsiveness - responsive to stimulation exteroception - sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body interoception - sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body photosensitivity, radiosensitivity - sensitivity to the action of radiant energy physiology - 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" sensitivity physical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions frequency 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 environment sensitivity antenna, 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 understanding ability - the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment insensitiveness, insensitivity - the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

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sensitiveness

noun

1. 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.

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Translations

حَساسِيَه

citlivost

følsomhed

Sensibilität

sensibilité

næmi, viîkvæmni

hassasiyet

敏感

sensitive

(ˈsensitiv) adjective

1. (usually with to) strongly or easily affected (by something). sensitive skin; sensitive to light. sensitief حَسّاس чуствителен sensível citlivý empfindlich følsom ευαίσθητος, ευπαθήςsensible, delicado tundlik حساس herkkä sensibleרגיש संवेदनशील osjetljiv (túl) érzékeny peka viðkvæmur, næmur sensibile 感じやすい 민감한 jautrus jutīgs sensitif gevoeligfølsom, ømfintlig, sartwrażliwy حساس، حسي sensível sensibil (la) нежный; чувствительный citlivý občutljiv osetljiv känslig, ömtålig อ่อนไหว; เสียหายได้ง่าย duyarlı, hassas 敏感的 чутливий, сприйнятливий حساس nhạy cảm 敏感的

2. (usually with about or to) easily hurt or offended. She is very sensitive to criticism. sensitief حَسّاس обидчив susceptível citlivý sensibel følsom ευαίσθητος, εύθικτοςsusceptible ülitundlik زود رنج herkkä sensibleפגיע कोमल osjetljiv kényes perasa hörundsár sensibile 敏感な 예민한 jautriai reaguojantis jūtīgs; viegli aizvainojams sensitif; mudah tersinggung gevoelignærtakende, fintfølendewrażliwy, drażliwy حساس susceptível sensibil (la) обидчивый citlivý občutljiv, dovzeten osetljiv känslig รู้สึกเจ็บปวดหรือโดนดูหมิ่นได้ง่าย içli, alıngan 容易受傷的，容易生氣的 вразливий; той, що гостро реагує جذباتی dễ bị ảnh hưởng bởi cái gì 易受伤害的，容易生气的

3. having or showing artistic good taste. a sensitive writer; a sensitive performance. sensitief مُرْهَف الحِس، ذو ذَوْقٍ رفيع прецизен sensível citlivý feinfühlig følsom ευαίσθητος, αισθαντικός sensible peen, kultuurne با احساس herkkä plein de sensibilité רגיש संवेदनशील dojmljiv, čuvstven igényes bercitarasa tilfinninganæmur sensibile; raffinato 感受性豊かな 섬세한 jautrus, turintis subtilų meninį skonį, meniškas smalks; emocionāls; izjusts yang peka gevoeliguttrykksfull, følsomwrażliwy با احساس sensível plin de sensibilitate восприимчивый citlivý občutljiv osećajan känslig, uttrycksfull มีรสนิยมทางด้านศิลปะ duygulu, hassas 藝術品味高的 той, що має тонкий художній смак فن کا ذوق رکھنے والا có sự thông cảm 艺术感觉好的

ˈsensitively adverb

sensitief بِحَساسِيَه чуствително sensivelmente citlivě sensibel følsomt ευαίσθητα con sensibilidad tundlikult با نازكدلي herkästi avec sensibilité בִּרגִישוּת भावुकता से osjetljivo érz(ékel)ően; érzékenyen secara peka af næmi con sensibilità 敏感に 민감하게 jautriai jūtīgi; smalki; emocionāli dengan sensitif gevoeligfølsomt z wrażliwością, z wyczuciem په حساسيت سره com sensibilidade cu sensibilitate чувствительно citlivo z občutkom osetljivo känsligt อย่างไวต่อความรู้สึก hassasiyetle 敏感地 вразливо حساسیت سے nhạy cảm 敏感地

ˈsensitiveness noun

sensitiwiteit حَساسِيَه обидчивост sensibilidade citlivost die Sensibilität følsomhed ευαισθησία, αισθαντικότητα sensibilidad tundlikkus نازكدلي herkkyys sensibilitéרגישות सूक्ष्मग्राहिता osjetljivost, senzibilitet érzékenység; fogékonyság kepekaan næmi, viðkvæmni sensibilità 感じやすさ 과민, 민감성 jautrumas jūtīgums; smalka uztvere; emocionalitāte kepekaan gevoeligheidømfintlighet, uttrykksfullhet wrażliwość حساسيت sensibilidade sensibilitate чувствительность citlivosť občutljivost osetljivost känslighet ความไวต่อความรู้สึก hassasiyet 敏感 чуйність; чутливість حساسی tính nhạy cảm 敏感

ˌsensiˈtivity noun

sensitiwiteit حَساسيَه чуатвителост sensibilidade citlivost die Sensibilität følsomhed ευαισθησίαsensibilidad tundlikkus حساسيت herkkyys sensibilitéרגישות सूक्ष्मग्राहिता osjetljivost, osjećajnost érzékenység sifat perasa næmi, viðkvæmni sensibilità 感受性 민감도, 감수성 jautrumas jutīgums kepekaan zinnelijkfølsomhet حساسيت، نازكتيا sensibilidade sensibilitate чувствительность citlivosť občutljivost osetljivost känslighet การไวต่อความรู้สึก hassasiyet 敏感性 чутливість; вразливість حسیت کا درجہ tính nhạy cảm 敏感性

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