sensitivity
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(noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment |
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Synonyms: sensitiveness |
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Related Words: ability, antenna, feeler |
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Antonyms: insensitivity |
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(noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences: "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity" |
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Related Words: frequency response, perceptiveness, physical property |
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(noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli: "sensitivity to pain" |
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Synonyms: sensibility, sensitiveness |
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Related Words: exteroception, hypersensitivity, interoception, photosensitivity, radiosensitivity, reactivity, responsiveness, sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
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(noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) |
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Synonyms: sensitiveness |
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Related Words: feeling, feelings, oversensitiveness, sensibility |
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(noun) susceptibility to a pathogen |
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Synonyms: predisposition |
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Related Words: diathesis, hypersensitivity, sensitization, susceptibility, susceptibleness |
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