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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 | ||
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