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sensitive

adj
/ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/UK/ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/US/ˈsɪn.sɪt.ɪv/

Etymology

From Middle French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sensitivus. By surface analysis, sense + -ite + -ive.

  1. derived from sensitivus
  2. derived from sensitif

Definitions

  1. Having the faculty of sensation

    Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.

    • The sensitive faculty most part overrules reason, the soul is carried hoodwinked, and the understanding captive like a beast.

  2. Responsive to stimuli.

  3. Easily offended, upset, or hurt.

    • Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting.

      • Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.

    2. Meant to be concealed or kept secret.

      • These are highly sensitive documents.
      • Xeltan: I cannot speak more about this problem; it is too sensitive. Suffice it to say, she has compromised my authority as a diplomat.

    3. Being aware of the feelings of others and taking care not to offend them.

      • Thank you for being sensitive.

    4. Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy.

      • The president's untimely statement disrupted some very sensitive negotiations.

    5. Accurate

      Accurate; able to register small changes in some property.

    6. Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism.

    7. A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

      • [I]t is quite certain that many of their fears were unfounded, and centred upon perfectly innocent people - especially those who were what we now call "mediumistic" or "sensitives".
      • After all, Madame Rosita was a sensitive.
      • Swedenborg was one of the leading savants of Europe; it would be absurd to place any of our sensitives on the same intellectual level.

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Derived

barosensitive, case sensitive, chemosensitive, cold-sensitive, context-sensitive, cryosensitive, ecosensitive, electrosensitive, extrasensitive, hemosensitive, highly sensitive person, hydrosensitive, hygrosensitive, hyposensitive, immunosensitive, magnetosensitive, mechanosensitive, metabosensitive, meteorosensitive, morphosensitive, osmosensitive, oversensitive, pansensitive, pharmacosensitive, phosphosensitive, photosensitive, piezosensitive, pressure-sensitive, pseudosensitive, psychrosensitive, radiosensitive, Sensex, sensitive compartmented information, sensitive female chord progression, sensitive fern, sensitively, sensitiveness, sensitive pea, sensitivity, sensitivize · +12 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sensitive. 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.

01sensitive02stimuli03stimulus04internal05experienced06subject07liable08susceptible

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

8 hops · closes at sensitive

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