Meanings
plural sensitivenesses
- countableuncountableThe quality or degree of being sensitive.
- countableuncountableThe ability to be aware of (and, usually, react with regard to) the feelings of others.
How wrong I was! wit, with him, was only the sparkle of the waters which hide precious things in the depths below. I can enter into the sensitiveness which is fain to keep that which it prizes most dearly, hidden from a cold and mocking world.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXI. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 159
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
nounthe ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences
nounthe ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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