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| NOUN | 1 | sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli |
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| 2 | sensitivity, sensitiveness | The ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | |
| 3 | sensitivity, sensitiveness | Sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | |
| 4 | sensitivity, predisposition | Susceptibility to a pathogen | |
| 5 | sensitivity, sensitiveness | The ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment |
| Sounds | seh.nsihtih'vihtiy |
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| Rhymes | ability, abnormality, absentee, and 622 more rhymes in tiy... |
| Meaning | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli. The faculty of sensation. |
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| Examples | "sensitivity to pain" |
| Synonyms | sensitiveness, sensibility |
| Category | physiology |
| Broader | sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty |
| Narrower | acuteness; hypersensitivity; responsiveness, reactivity; exteroception; interoception; photosensitivity, radiosensitivity |
| Adjectives | sensitive; sensitive; sensitive |
| Meaning | The ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences. |
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| Examples | "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity" |
| Synonyms | sensitiveness |
| Broader | physical property |
| Narrower | frequency response |
| Attributes | sensitive; insensitive |
| Meaning | Sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others). |
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| Synonyms | sensitiveness |
| Broader | feeling |
| Narrower | oversensitiveness; sensibility; feelings |
| Attributes | sensitive; insensitive |
| Adjectives | sensitive |
| Meaning | Susceptibility to a pathogen. |
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| Synonyms | predisposition |
| Broader | susceptibility, susceptibleness |
| Narrower | habitus; sensitization, sensitisation; hypersensitivity; diathesis |
| Attributes | sensitizing, sensitising; desensitizing, desensitising |
| Meaning | The ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment. |
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| Synonyms | sensitiveness |
| Contrary | insensitivity, insensitiveness |
| Broader | ability |
| Narrower | antenna, feeler; defensiveness; perceptiveness |
| Adjectives | sensitive |
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