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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