Meaning of SENSITIVITY
| Pronunciation: | | `sensi'tivitee
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- [n] the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
- [n] the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"
- [n] (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; "sensitivity to pain"
- [n] sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
- [n] susceptibility to a pathogen
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| | Synonyms: | | predisposition, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitiveness, sensitiveness |
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| | Antonyms: | | insensitiveness, insensitivity | | |
| | See Also: | | ability, antenna, diathesis, exteroception, feeler, feeling, feelings, frequency response, habitus, hypersensitivity, hypersensitivity, interoception, oversensitiveness, perceptiveness, photosensitivity, physical property, radiosensitivity, reactivity, responsiveness, sensation, sense, sensibility, sensitisation, sensitization, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency, susceptibility, susceptibleness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Sen`si*tiv"i*ty\, n.
The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in
science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.
Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the
scientific term for the capacity of feeling. --Hickok.
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