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SENSITIVITY

Definition:

1. [noun] (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; "sensitivity to pain"
   Synonyms: sensitiveness, sensibility
   
   
2. [noun] the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"
   
   
3. [noun] sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
   Synonyms: sensitiveness
   
   
4. [noun] susceptibility to a pathogen
   Synonyms: predisposition
   
   
5. [noun] the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
   Synonyms: sensitiveness
   
   

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Related Words:

• hypersensitivity
• responsiveness, reactivity
• exteroception
• interoception
• photosensitivity, radiosensitivity
• frequency response
• oversensitiveness
• sensibility
• feelings
• habitus
• sensitization, sensitisation
• hypersensitivity
• diathesis
• antenna, feeler
• defensiveness
• perceptiveness

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