noun
- Rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections.
- synonyms: sensitizing, sensitization, sensitisation
verb
- Cause to sense; make sensitive.
- usage: "She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society"; "My tongue became sensitized to good wine"
- Make sensitive to a drug or allergen.
- usage: "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen"
- Make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion.
- usage: "sensitize the photographic film"
- Make sensitive or aware.
- usage: "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs"
- synonyms: sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise
adjective
- Making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli.
- synonyms: sensitizing
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