English noun: sensitivity | |||
1. | sensitivity (cognition) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | ||
Samples | Sensitivity to pain. | ||
Synonyms | sensibility, sensitiveness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | acuteness, exteroception, hypersensitivity, interoception, photosensitivity, radiosensitivity, reactivity, responsiveness | ||
Domain category | physiology | ||
2. | sensitivity (attribute) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | ||
Samples | A galvanometer of extreme sensitivity. The sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth. | ||
Synonyms | sensitiveness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | physical property | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | frequency response | ||
Attribute | insensitive, sensitive | ||
3. | sensitivity (feeling) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | ||
Synonyms | sensitiveness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | feeling | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | feelings, oversensitiveness, sensibility | ||
Attribute | insensitive, sensitive | ||
4. | sensitivity (state) susceptibility to a pathogen | ||
Synonyms | predisposition | ||
Broader (hypernym) | susceptibility, susceptibleness | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | diathesis, habitus, hypersensitivity, sensitisation, sensitization | ||
Attribute | desensitising, desensitizing, sensitising, sensitizing | ||
5. | sensitivity (attribute) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | ||
Synonyms | sensitiveness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | ability | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | antenna, defensiveness, feeler, perceptiveness | ||
Antonyms | insensitiveness, insensitivity | ||