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Definition of Sensitiveness
1. Noun. Sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others).
Generic synonyms: Feeling
Specialized synonyms: Oversensitiveness, Sensibility, Feelings
Attributes: Sensitive, Insensitive
Derivative terms: Sensitive, Sensitive
2. Noun. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation. "Sensitivity to pain"
Generic synonyms: Sensation, Sense, Sensory Faculty, Sentience, Sentiency
Specialized synonyms: Acuteness, Hypersensitivity, Reactivity, Responsiveness, Exteroception, Interoception, Photosensitivity, Radiosensitivity
Category relationships: Physiology
Derivative terms: Sensible, Sensible, Sensitive, Sensitive, Sensitive
3. Noun. 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"
Generic synonyms: Physical Property
Specialized synonyms: Frequency Response
Attributes: Sensitive, Insensitive
Derivative terms: Sensitive
4. Noun. The ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment.
Specialized synonyms: Antenna, Feeler, Defensiveness, Perceptiveness
Generic synonyms: Ability
Antonyms: Insensitiveness, Insensitivity
Derivative terms: Sensitive, Sensitive
Definition of Sensitiveness
1. Noun. The ability to perceive sensation. ¹
2. Noun. The ability to be aware of (and, usually, react with regard to) the feelings of others. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sensitiveness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensitiveness
Literary usage of Sensitiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1897)
"The effective sensitiveness of a galvanometer with a movable coil, depends on the
... This effective sensitiveness can be increased by— (1) Increasing the ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1913)
"Evidently affective sensitiveness may be general or special. ... If it is special,
he will show sensitiveness to one kind of material and relative ..."
3. Practical Physical Chemistry by Alexander Findlay (1920)
"Sensitiveness of a Balance—Weighing by Oscillations.-.—In determining the weight
of a body, weights to the nearest centigram are placed on the scale-pan of ..."
4. Etching & Etchers by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1868)
"Sensitiveness in ordinary life is so often spoken of as a weakness or a fault,
so often attributed to morbid conditions, that it is needful to claim a right ..."
5. Investigations of Infra-red Spectra by William Weber Coblentz (1905)
"From Table I the reader will obtain some idea of the sensitiveness of previous
... The "sensitiveness" is expressed in deflections in centimeters per square ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"The greatest sensitiveness is at the fovea, falling rapidly toward the periphery.
At the centre a difference of yj-^ of the intensity of red was detected; ..."
7. Smithsonian Physical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Frederick Eugene Fowle (1916)
"Variation of the Sensitiveness oi the Eye with till Wave-length at Low Intensities
... Variation oi Sensitiveness to Radiation of Greater Intensities. ..."
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