Synonym: predisposition, sensibility, sensitiveness. Similar words: sensitive, activity, density, productivity, intensity, transition, inquisitive, levity. Meaning: [sensɪˈtɪvɪtɪ] n. 1. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation 2. the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences 3. sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) 4. susceptibility to a pathogen 5. the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment.
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31. Due to the obvious sensitivity of the issue he would not divulge any details.
32. A good relationship involves concern and sensitivity for each other's feelings.
33. Perhaps he plumbed a depth beyond human sensitivity.
34. Eyes Blurred vision, double vision, sensitivity to bright lights.
35. We were brainwashed into seeing qualities like gentleness and sensitivity as negative and weak.
36. The 11 sinuously blended songs of ambient texture and acoustic sensitivity are striking and pure, with a confessional intensity.
37. At present, there is no good explanation for the link between candidiasis, food intolerance and chemical sensitivity.
38. There are two main ways in which the sensitivity of InsP 3 -induced calcium release might vary.
39. And if so, which organism is involved, and what drug sensitivity do you have?
40. Sensitivity to sound is also dependent on the stage of sleep the sleeper is in.
41. Since metastases of unknown origins are usually poorly differentiated the sensitivity of testing with these antibodies would also be reduced.
42. These attributes include maturity, currency of denomination, place of repayment, and default sensitivity.
43. The sensitivity needed in this area calls for an emphasis on certain points before the more controversial ones are attempted.
44. Our study suggests that food sensitivity is of insufficient importance to warrant putting all patients through elimination diets.
45. It could be that some underlying defect opens the way to both candidiasis and chemical sensitivity.
46. In 1949 Lemon and Byrne reported a large series of patients undergoing duodenal aspiration cytology with a test sensitivity of over 70%.
47. Without her patience, sensitivity, and encouragement this project would never have reached completion.
48. Convincing them otherwise would take double-blind trials and a plausible explanation of how the sensitivity might arise.
49. Sampling directly from the pancreatic duct provides a more proximate sample for cytological diagnosis and may improve the diagnostic sensitivity.
50. But apparent ease of transition has been achieved only with much thought and sensitivity.
51. Such empirical studies of the sensitivity of results will no doubt be further developed.
52. Ida Rebecca had small book learning but highly developed sensitivity,[Sentence dictionary] particularly when it came to judging outsiders.
53. This suggests that there is some other deficiency as well in those with chemical sensitivity - perhaps a defect in another enzyme.
54. Given that the doctor has ruled out infection and other likely causes for the diarrhoea, then food sensitivity should be considered.
55. Indeed this sensitivity and its consequent biphasic activity seem to be exceptional.
56. If carried out with sensitivity rather than in a stiff and mechanical way, aromatherapy massage is a potent form of hands-on healing.
57. It is therefore important to be able to perform discrete sensitivity analysis and to handle lower bounds.
58. We will also need an ever greater sensitivity to our own responsibilities when we set forth to enjoy the countryside.
59. Suddenly your grown-up veneer gives way to a childlike sensitivity that causes you to feel-within minutes-wonderful happiness and acute distress.
60. The model 214-2F research biomass monitor has increased sensitivity, improved long-term stability and reduced effect of gas hold-up in fermenters.
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