sensitiveness

Noun
  1. Sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) (synset 107527704)
    tells us about:
    • sensitive - being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others
    • insensitive - deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive
    is a type of: feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states
    subtypes:
    • oversensitiveness - sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset
    • sensibility - refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
    • feelings - emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity)
    same as: sensitivity
  2. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli;
    The faculty of sensation (synset 105660771)
    "sensitivity to pain"
    referred to in: physiology - the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms
    is a type of: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency - the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
    subtypes:
    same as: sensibility, sensitivity
  3. The ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences (synset 105026827)
    "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"; "the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth"
    tells us about:
    is a type of: physical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions
    subtypes: frequency response - (electronics) a curve representing the output-to-input ratio of a transducer as a function of frequency
    same as: sensitivity
  4. The ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment (synset 104850224)
    is a type of: ability - the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
    subtypes:
    same as: sensitivity

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