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Noun sensitivity has 5 senses

• sensitivity(n = noun.cognition) sensibility, sensitiveness - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"
is a kind of sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency
has particulars: acuteness, hypersensitivity, reactivity, responsiveness, exteroception, interoception, photosensitivity, radiosensitivity
Derived forms adjective sensitive₄, adjective sensitive₁

• sensitivity(n = noun.attribute) sensitiveness - the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"; "the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth"
is a kind of physical property
has particulars: frequency response

• sensitivity(n = noun.feeling) sensitiveness - sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others); Array
is a kind of feeling
has particulars: oversensitiveness, sensibility, feelings
Derived form adjective sensitive₂

• sensitivity(n = noun.state) predisposition - susceptibility to a pathogen; Array
is a kind of susceptibility, susceptibleness
has particulars: habitus, sensitisation, sensitization, hypersensitivity, diathesis

• sensitivity(n = noun.attribute) sensitiveness - the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment; Array
has particulars: antenna, feeler, defensiveness, perceptiveness
is a kind of ability
Antonym: insensitivity
Derived form adjective sensitive₂

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sensitivity

acuteness, affectivity, agitability, allergy, anaphylaxis, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciativeness, artistic judgment, awareness, censoriousness, choosiness, combustibility, compassion, concern, connoisseurship, conscientiousness, consciousness, considerateness, critical niceness, criticalness, delicacy, discriminating taste, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, edginess, emotional instability, emotionalism, empathy, eruptiveness, excitability, excitableness, explosiveness, exquisiteness, fastidiousness, feel, feeling, fine palate, fineness, finesse, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitiveness, hypersensitivity, identification, impressionability, inflammability, intuition, irascibility, irritability, judiciousness, kindliness, latent violence, making distinctions, meticulousness, nervousness, niceness of distinction, nicety, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, oversensitivity, overtenderness, palate, particularity, particularness, passibility, perception, perceptiveness, perceptivity, perfectionism, perturbability, photophobia, preciseness, precisianism, precision, prickliness, priggishness, prudishness, punctilio, punctiliousness, purism, puritanism, receptiveness, receptivity, refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement, responsiveness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, selectiveness, selectivity, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, skittishness, soreness, startlishness, strictness, subtlety, supersensitivity, susceptibility, susceptivity, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, taste, temperamentalness, tempestuousness, tenderness, tetchiness, thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness, understanding, violence, warmth

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