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Facts are important because law is often highly fact-sensitive, which is a fancy way of saying that the proper legal outcome depends on the exact details of what happened.

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  1. adjective Capable of perceiving with a sense or senses.
  2. adjective Responsive to external conditions or stimulation.
  3. adjective Susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others.
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  • Being as this one is a little less time-sensitive, the results were better across the board.
  • Perhaps a hair was light-sensitive, and its owner, purely by force of will, would culture that hair and interface it with the surviving optic nerve, producing an eye more durable than the one it replaced. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 05 - May 1994
  • Cookies are date-sensitive, and an incorrect date can cause this precise type of error. —  GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
  • Facts are important because law is often highly fact-sensitive, which is a fancy way of saying that the proper legal outcome depends on the exact details of what happened. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The position was especially time-sensitive, as the magazine's editors wanted him to become the bureau's first chief as the conflict in Vietnam lurched to a conclusion.
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  1. Middle English, from Old French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sēnsitīvus, from Latin sēnsus, sense; see sense.

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  1. Early modern English also sencitive; from Old French (and F.) sensitif = Provencal sensitiu = Spanish Portuguese Italian sensitivo, from Middle Latin *sensitivus, from Latin sentire, past participle sensus, perceive: see sense.
 

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/ˈsɛnsɪtɪv/
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