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Definition of Supersensitive
1. Adjective. Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor). "Hypersensitive to pollen"
Similar to: Susceptible
Derivative terms: Allergy, Hypersensitivity, Hypersensitivity
Definition of Supersensitive
1. a. Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive.
Definition of Supersensitive
1. Adjective. Extremely sensitive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Supersensitive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supersensitive
Literary usage of Supersensitive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homoeopathy: Its Tenets and Tendencies, Theoretical, Theological, and by James Young Simpson (1853)
"... and then to extinguish, a spasmodic fit of asthma,—because the diseased parts
of the organization producing the paroxysm were so supersensitive as to be ..."
2. Portfolio of Dermochromes by Jerome Kingsbury, William Gaynor States, Eduard Jacobi (1913)
"A subject supersensitive to one drug may very likely be supersensitive to others.
No doubt there is a general predisposition to drug eruptions based on ..."
3. Microbes & Toxins by Étienne Burnet, Charles Broquet, William Macdonald Scott (1912)
"The symptoms resemble serum-sickness in man ; there is an incubation period of
twelve days at least after the first injection. The supersensitive condition ..."
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