Sensitivity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SENSITIVITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being sensitive
• the quality or condition of being sensitive
• feelings liable to be offended or hurt; sensibilities
• The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.
• (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
• the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences
• sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
• susceptibility to a pathogen
• the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being sensitive; as; the capacity of an organism or sense organ to respond to stimulation; irritability; the quality or state of being hypersensitive; the degree to which a radio receiving set responds to incoming waves; the capacity of being easily hurt; awareness of the needs and emotions of others

Words related to SENSITIVITY

sensitivities16

Words that contain SENSITIVITY

insensitivity19 oversensitivity24 hypersensitivity30 photosensitivity27 supersensitivity24 radiosensitivity23

How to use SENSITIVITY in a sentence

• Hit it down the road, seven hours, stand by her bed, acknowledge the bond of blood, the sensitivity she could never handle, that I have ridden to beauty beyond all expectation.
• Joe lived in the reverse disguise, his strength hidden beneath layers of sensitivity.
• The trials I have as yet made on the sensitivity of different persons confirms the reasonable expectation that it would on the whole be highest among the intellectually ablest.
• I am convinced also that not a little of the popular belief concerning the sensitivity of the blind is due to exaggerated claims on their part that have not been verified.
• This fact may perhaps also serve as additional evidence of the sensitivity of able men.
• Hence the numbers of the weights form a scale of equal degrees of sensitivity.
• The tests show the sensitivity at the time they are made, and give an approximate measure of the discrimination with which the operatee habitually employs his senses.
• I have mentioned them, and might have added more, to show that experiments on sensitivity have to be made in the midst of pitfalls warily to be avoided.
• This difference indicates the grade of sensitivity that the weights in the tray are designed to test.
• There was very little that could arouse any kind of sensitivity in the wiry, energetic man, but the Chamber could do so.
• Heart-light flowed from them, and touching the responsive sensitivity, made photographs that pictured the whole story.
• It struck me as we were driving that mental sensitivity was a good thing in spite of its limitations.
• The fact of sensitivity, in short, or the quality of response to stimulation, is more wonderful than its particular formulation in the human brain.
• Mind simply represents a special development of the quality of sensitivity common to organic nature, and analogous to the sensitivity of the photographic plate.

Similar words containing SENSITIV without suffix ity

sensitive12 sensitives13 insensitive14 sensitively17 unsensitive14 nonsensitive15 insensitively19 insensitivity19 oversensitive19 sensitiveness16 sensitivities16 hypersensitive25 photosensitive22 radiosensitive18 supersensitive19 ultrasensitive17 insensitiveness18 insensitivities18 oversensitivity24 sensitivenesses18 oversensitiviti21 supersensitivit20 oversensitivene21 radiosensitivit19 photosensitivit23 hypersensitivit26 hypersensitiven26 supersensitivel20 hypersensitivity30 photosensitivity27 supersensitivity24 radiosensitivity23 supersensitively24 oversensitiveness23 oversensitivities23 insensitivenesses20 hypersensitiveness29 hypersensitivities29 photosensitivities26 radiosensitivities22 supersensitivities23 oversensitivenesses25 hypersensitivenesses31

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