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Sensitivity

Sensitivity Meaning & Definition
Sensitivity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Sensitivity?

[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Sensitivity: predisposition | sensibility | sensitiveness | sensitiveness | sensitiveness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Sensitivity:

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

Sensitivity In Webster's Dictionary

\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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