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Definition of Oversensitiveness
1. Noun. Sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset.
Definition of Oversensitiveness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being oversensitive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversensitiveness
Literary usage of Oversensitiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"... sexua 1 excesses and violent fits of passion; paralytic condition of lower
limbs: painful contraction of hamstrings; oversensitiveness of spine to touch ..."
2. Tuberculosis of Children: Its Diagnosis and Treatment by Hans Much (1921)
"The harmful toxin-oversensitiveness must be destroyed, the useful
antibody-oversensitive- ness must be conserved. Therefore, the advocates of both
methods ..."
3. The renewal of life by Thomas King Chambers (1865)
"By oversensitiveness of the nerves. 2d. By too long exposure to the acids of ...
This is sometimes, but not always, accompanied by oversensitiveness ..."
4. Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, Augustus Korndoerfer, Ernest Albert Farrington (1877)
"Delirium tremens, with oversensitiveness, nervous excitability and malicious ...
oversensitiveness, every harmless word offends, every little and music, ..."
5. The Brain and the Nerves: Their Ailments and Their Exhaustion by Thomas Stretch Dowse (1884)
"oversensitiveness, apart from the mere ego, is a common feature of ...
This oversensitiveness is often most distressing before and during a thunderstorm. ..."
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