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sensitivity
 
Noun sensitivity has 5 senses
  1. sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; "sensitivity to pain"
    --1 is a kind of sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
    --1 has particulars:
     hypersensitivity; responsiveness, reactivity; exteroception; interoception; photosensitivity, radiosensitivity
  2. sensitivity - the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"
    --2 is a kind of     physical property
    --2 has particulars: frequency response
  3. sensitivity, sensitiveness - sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
    --3 is a kind of feeling
    --3 has particulars: oversensitiveness; sensibility; feelings
  4. sensitivity, predisposition - susceptibility to a pathogen
    --4 is a kind of susceptibility, susceptibleness
    --4 has particulars:
     habitus; sensitization, sensitisation; hypersensitivity; diathesis
  5. sensitivity, sensitiveness - the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
    --5 is a kind of ability
    Antonyms: insensitivity, insensitiveness
    --5 has particulars: antenna, feeler; defensiveness; perceptiveness
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