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Noun sensitivity has 5 senses

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
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
sensitivity, sensitiveness - sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
--₃ is a kind of feeling
--₃ has particulars: oversensitiveness; sensibility; feelings
sensitivity, predisposition - susceptibility to a pathogen
--₄ is a kind of susceptibility, susceptibleness
--₄ has particulars:
habitus; sensitization, sensitisation; hypersensitivity; diathesis
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