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DEFINITIONS OF: sensitiveness

n sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)

Synonyms:: sensitivity

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; oversensitiveness
sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset; sensibility
refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; feelings
emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity); insight, perceptiveness, perceptivity
a feeling of understanding; sensuousness
a sensuous feeling

Type of:: feeling
the experiencing of affective and emotional states

n the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

Synonyms:: sensitivity

Antonyms:: insensitiveness, insensitivity
the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; antenna, feeler
sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ; defensiveness
excessive sensitivity to criticism; perceptiveness
the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding; bunker mentality
defensiveness resulting from repeated attacks

Type of:: ability
the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

n (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation

Synonyms:: sensibility, sensitivity

Types:: show 14 types...; hide 14 types...; acuteness
a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed; 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; excitability, irritability
excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part; sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense
the ability to see; the visual faculty; cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch, touch modality
the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing
the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste
the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth; olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell
the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents; proprioception
the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts; somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis
the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs

Type of:: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency
the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

n the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences

“the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth”

Synonyms:: sensitivity

Types:: frequency response
(electronics) a curve representing the output-to-input ratio of a transducer as a function of frequency

Type of:: physical property
any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions

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