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oversensitivity

noun

Etymology

From over- + sensitivity.

  1. derived from sensitivus
  2. derived from sensitif
  3. suffixed as sensitivity — “sensitive + ity”
  4. prefixed as oversensitivity — “over + sensitivity”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being excessively sensitive.

    • Near-synonym: hypersensitivity
    • While this must be hard on Kate and Gerry McCann, it is also a sign that their campaign was extraordinarily successful, so successful that a culture of oversensitivity has long swirled in the slipstream.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for oversensitivity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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