Sensitiveness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SENSITIVENESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being sensitive
• sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
• (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
• the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences
• the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
ADJECTIVE:
• easily damaged, injured, or distressed by slight changes
• (of photographic materials) prepared so as to respond rapidly to the action of light.
• (of a market) unstable and liable to quick changes of price because of outside influences
• easily offended or upset
• quick to detect or respond to slight changes, signals, or influences
• kept secret or with restrictions on disclosure to avoid endangering security
• a person who is believed to respond to paranormal influences.
• having or displaying a quick and delicate appreciation of others' feelings
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• sensory

Words related to SENSITIVENESS

sensitive12 sensitivenesses18

Words that contain SENSITIVENESS

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How to use SENSITIVENESS in a sentence

• Blessed sensitiveness to rumor, how few possess it! Having said this much, I may add that, in the course of the winter, my mind was arrested by his mode of exhibiting truth.
• Their movements were free and graceful, and their sensitiveness so acute that the slightest agitation made them start, taking tremendous springs.
• Up here in these heights, under the pressure of these thoughts, every nerve and fibre seemed stretched to an amazing pitch of sensitiveness.
• This sensitiveness to the changes of the outward world is a large element in her mind, and indicates the reality of her poetic gifts.
• Every half division of the dial corresponds, as to weight, to the sensitiveness indicated for the instrument.
• We do not find out until it is too late that the intellect too, at least where it is capable of being exercised on the higher objects, has its sensitiveness.
• In no other way can I account for the Republic overlooking so entirely the sensitiveness of others.
• Should the person move, or the plate become exposed to the light, it may be restored to its original sensitiveness by placing it over the quick, one or two seconds.
• Deslon selected, in the treatment of poor people, two women who had rendered themselves remarkable by their sensitiveness around the famous rod, and took them to Passy.
• The strength of this solution must vary according to the color and sensitiveness required.
• There is, moreover, on the part of too many of our people, an aptitude to betray a jealous sensitiveness on the subject of being presented at foreign courts.
• There are few health measures more simple and effective than restoring the normal sensitiveness of this important impulse.
• The sensitiveness to electrical stimulation was decreased 14 per cent.
• But there is a rare sensitiveness and delicacy of feeling in her music.
• Sensitiveness to surroundings, almost to existence, seemed to have been lost.
• Her natural sensitiveness and all the prejudices of her life rebelled against it, and she could not look forward to it without fear and trembling.
• He dreaded the first entrance of love within his bosom, for instinctively he felt that his very sensitiveness would render the passion more his misery than his joy.
• Women are far more responsive to such things than men, who are ordinarily quite as devoid of aesthetic sensitiveness as so many oxen.
• As has already been stated, the sensitiveness of a cell to light is increased by proper usage.
• This increased sensitiveness is shown, not by a lowered resistance in light, but by an increased resistance in dark.
• After the eyes of the subject had thus been rested in the darkness, it was noted that the sensitiveness of his sight had been increased threefold.
• It is a fact that in all trades where sensitiveness of touch is an asset, blindness has increased their efficiency.
• The lack of sensitiveness of the wet plate was perhaps the only reason why its use progressed but slowly.
• The Jesuit fathers, with instant sensitiveness, felt the loss of their champion and protector, Nobunaga.
• There was, naturally enough, a special sensitiveness to the practice of the art of printing.
• Massachusetts, while exhibiting peculiar sensitiveness at any responsibility for slavery, seemed to view it with unconcern.

Similar words containing SENSITIVENES without suffix s

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