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sensitiveness

[ sen-si-tiv-nis ]

noun

  1. the state or quality of being sensitive.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sensitiveness1

First recorded in 1820–30; sensitive + -ness

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Example Sentences

Then acute sensitiveness returned again—he felt the whole series of emotions over and over without one omission.

His death was caused by extreme sensitiveness at the manner in which his play of Oberon's Oath was received.

This delight was at one time somewhat disturbed by his hyper-sensitiveness.

An extended table of the sensitiveness of many indicators, on which the above tables are based, is given by Salm, Z. phys.

It was indeed a terrible sight for any person of sensitiveness to see a human being—though deserving—suffer in this manner.

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