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oversensitive

adj

Etymology

From over- + sensitive.

  1. derived from sensitivus
  2. derived from sensitif
  3. formed as oversensitive — “over- + sensitive”

Definitions

  1. Having excessive sensitivity

    Having excessive sensitivity; reacting to stimuli too readily; thin-skinned.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at oversensitive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at oversensitive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at oversensitive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA