Definition of Oversensitive

1. Adjective. Unduly sensitive or thin-skinned.

Similar to: Sensitive
Derivative terms: Oversensitiveness

Definition of Oversensitive

1. Adjective. Having excessive sensitivity; reacting to stimuli too readily; thin-skinned. ¹

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Definition of Oversensitive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversensitive

overseeded
overseeding
overseeds
overseeing
overseen
overseer
overseers
overseership
overseerships
oversees
oversell
overselling
oversells
oversend
oversensing
oversensitive (current term)
oversensitiveness
oversensitivity
oversentimental
oversentimentality
oversentimentally
overserious
overseriously
overserve
overserved
overserves
overservice
overserviced
overservices
overservicing

Literary usage of Oversensitive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy by James Tyler Kent (1900)
"oversensitive PATIENTS. Organon § 44 et seq. Drug poisoning such as we referred to ... These are oversensitive patients who have received repeated doses of ..."

2. Homoeopathic Therapeutics of the Ear by Charles C Boyle (1905)
"oversensitive to human—Sulph. resounds like a bell through brain—Spig. Voices—Sensation in ear like confused—Benz. Ac. Walking fast—cracking in ears ..."

3. Principles of Physiology and Hygiene by George Wells Fitz (1908)
"The cold centres, on the other hand, have had so little use that they are oversensitive and respond to the slightest change of temperature. ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"I think, to nutritive conditions affecting the new surfaces and the nerves beneath them, so as to make the latter oversensitive. The tendency is toward ..."

5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"You will say I am oversensitive to outside suggestion. ... Perhaps I am oversensitive, as you say, but these suggestions from the outside keep pouring in on ..."

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