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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sensitivity \Sen'si*tiv"i*ty\, noun The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.
Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the scientific term for the capacity of feeling. --Hickok.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sensitivity
noun
1: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; "sensitivity to pain" [syn: {sensitiveness}, {sensibility}]
2: the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"
3: sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) [syn: {sensitiveness}]
4: susceptibility to a pathogen [syn: {predisposition}]
5: the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment [syn: {sensitiveness}] [ant: {insensitivity}, {insensitivity}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "sensitivity": acuteness, affectivity, agitability, allergy, anaphylaxis, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciativeness, artistic judgment, awareness, censoriousness, choosiness, combustibility, compassion, concern, connoisseurship, conscientiousness, consciousness, considerateness, critical niceness, criticalness, delicacy, discriminating taste, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, edginess, emotional instability, emotionalism, empathy, eruptiveness, excitability, excitableness, explosiveness, exquisiteness, fastidiousness, feel, feeling, fine palate, fineness, finesse, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitiveness, hypersensitivity, identification, impressionability, inflammability, intuition, irascibility, irritability, judiciousness, kindliness, latent violence, making distinctions, meticulousness, nervousness, niceness of distinction, nicety, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, oversensitivity, overtenderness, palate, particularity, particularness, passibility, perception, perceptiveness, perceptivity, perfectionism, perturbability, photophobia, preciseness, precisianism, precision, prickliness, priggishness, prudishness, punctilio, punctiliousness, purism, puritanism, receptiveness, receptivity, refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement, responsiveness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, selectiveness, selectivity, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, skittishness, soreness, startlishness, strictness, subtlety, supersensitivity, susceptibility, susceptivity, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, taste, temperamentalness, tempestuousness, tenderness, tetchiness, thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness, understanding, violence, warmth
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