Defenition of the word sensitivity

• Defenition of the word sensitivity

  • The capacity to respond to stimulation.
  • the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences: "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"
  • susceptibility to a pathogen
  • the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
  • sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
  • (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli: "sensitivity to pain"
  • the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"
  • (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; "sensitivity to pain"
  • the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences
  • (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation

Synonyms for the word sensitivity

• • predisposition
  • sensibility
  • sensitiveness

Hyponyms for the word sensitivity

• • acuteness
  • antenna
  • defensiveness
  • diathesis
  • exteroception
  • feeler
  • feelings
  • frequency response
  • habitus
  • hypersensitivity
  • interoception
  • oversensitiveness
  • perceptiveness
  • photosensitivity
  • radiosensitivity
  • reactivity
  • responsiveness
  • sensibility
  • sensitisation
  • sensitization

Hypernyms for the word sensitivity

• • ability
  • feeling
  • physical property
  • sensation
  • sense
  • sensory faculty
  • sentience
  • sentiency
  • susceptibility
  • susceptibleness

Antonyms for the word sensitivity

• • insensitiveness
  • insensitivity

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