sensitivity

1. (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:

   • acuteness - a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed
   • hypersensitivity - extreme sensitivity
   • reactivity, responsiveness - responsive to stimulation
   • exteroception - sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
   • interoception - sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body
   • photosensitivity, radiosensitivity - sensitivity to the action of radiant energy
   same as: sensibility, sensitiveness
2. 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:

   • sensitive - responsive to physical stimuli
   • insensitive - not responsive to physical stimuli
   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: sensitiveness
3. 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: sensitiveness
4. Susceptibility to a pathogen (synset 114555374)
   tells us about:

   • sensitising, sensitizing - making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli
   • desensitising, desensitizing - making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli
   is a type of: susceptibility, susceptibleness - the state of being susceptible; easily affected
   subtypes:

   • habitus - person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease)
   • sensitisation, sensitization - the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen)
   • hypersensitivity - pathological sensitivity
   • diathesis - constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality
   same as: predisposition
5. 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:

   • antenna, feeler - sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ
   • defensiveness - excessive sensitivity to criticism
   • perceptiveness - the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding
   same as: sensitiveness

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