noun
- Sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others.
- synonyms: sensitivity
- Physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation. (
- usage: "sensitivity to pain"
- synonyms: sensitivity, sensibility
- The ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences.
- usage: "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"; "the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth"
- synonyms: sensitivity
- The ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment.
- synonyms: sensitivity
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