sensitiveness

IPA: sˈɛnsʌtɪvnʌs

noun

  • The quality or degree of being sensitive.
  • The ability to perceive sensation.
  • The ability to be aware of (and, usually, react with regard to) the feelings of others.
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Examples of "sensitiveness" in Sentences

  • Their sensitiveness is a thing we have been trained, for self-defence, to repress.
  • The French call sensitiveness to insignificant and worthless things, the German way of quarreling (faire querelle d'allemand).
  • It might be a mere fancy springing from a jealous sensitiveness, which is disappointed if it be not paid in the full measure of its own coin.
  • The term “allergy” can be defined as the sensitiveness of body to a particular food, substance or odour which primarily does not affect other persons.
  • His sensitiveness was a disease, his pride was the only thing that kept him going; his love of her, strong as it was, would be drowned in an imagined shame!
  • ‘Yes; — but the worst of it is, that when they suffer from this weakness, which you call sensitiveness, they think that they are made of finer material than other people.
  • "Yes; -- but the worst of it is, that when they suffer from this weakness, which you call sensitiveness, they think that they are made of finer material than other people.
  • The Japanese desire to conform to the customs and appearances of those about him is due to what I have called sensitiveness; his success is due to the flexibility of his mental constitution.
  • His great sensitiveness is touchingly shown in his representation of this first contact with the Lord; the circumstances are present to him in the minutest details; he still remembers the Very hour.
  • But in ascending the series from simple twiners to leaf-climbers, an important quality is added, namely sensitiveness to a touch, by which means the foot-stalks of the leaves or flowers, or these modified and converted into tendrils, are excited to bend round and clasp the touching object.

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