Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or condition of being sensitive.
- n. The capacity of an organ or organism to respond to stimulation.
- n. Electronics The degree of response of a receiver or instrument to an incoming signal or to a change in the incoming signal; the signal strength required by an FM tuner to reduce noise and distortion.
- n. The degree of response of a plate or film to light, especially to light of a specified wavelength.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being sensitive; sensitiveness. Specifically
Wiktionary
- n. The quality of being sensitive
- n. The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli
- n. The proportion of individuals in a population that will be correctly identified in a binary classification test.
- n. The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.
- n. The degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
- n. sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
- n. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
- n. susceptibility to a pathogen
- n. the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences
Examples
“While using the term sensitivity for defining one's attributes and features it must be kept in mind that sensitivity is a verb that shows actions and not a noun.”
“Dealing with my sensitivity is an ongoing process.”
“YATES: What makes this lab so special, I think, is the effort we put into increasing what we call the sensitivity of the DNA technology.”
“YATES: It's the effort we put into increasing what we call the sensitivity of the DNA technology.”
“Grobbelaar, who heads the Friends of Willem Ratte organisation, would not elaborate because of what he called the sensitivity of the process.”
“I know absolutely nothing about what happens in prisons, but common sense tells me "sensitivity" is not about inmates 'sexual needs but about what approaches will be effective.”
“One such letter urged me to enroll in sensitivity training (at CAIR, naturally), while others branded me with harsh names (“bigot and racist”), compared me to the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazis, or characterized my writings as an “atrocity” filled with “pure poison” and “outright lies.””
“That's a fact, and no amount of wishful thinking or Kum-Bay-Yah New Age sensitivity is going to change that.”
“In some people their sensitivity is quite highly developed, which enables them to be receptive to information provided by spiritual forces.”
“Yet it was there, shouting its message of warning through every tissue cell, every nerve quickness and brain sensitivity of him — a totality of sensation that foreboded the ultimate catastrophe of life about which he knew nothing at all, but which, nevertheless, he felt to be the conclusive supreme disaster.”
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