sensitivity - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

Synonyms

• sensitiveness
• sensitivity

More generic

• ability

Opposite / Antonyms

• insensitivity

More specific

• antenna
• defensiveness
• feeler
• perceptiveness

Noun

the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences

Synonyms

• sensitiveness
• sensitivity

More generic

• physical property

More specific

• frequency response

Noun

(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation

Synonyms

• sensibility
• sensitiveness
• sensitivity

More generic

• sensation
• sense
• sensory faculty
• sentience
• sentiency

More specific

• acuteness
• exteroception
• hypersensitivity
• interoception
• photosensitivity
• radiosensitivity
• reactivity
• responsiveness

Noun

sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)

Synonyms

• sensitiveness
• sensitivity

More generic

• feeling

More specific

• feelings
• oversensitiveness
• sensibility

Noun

susceptibility to a pathogen

Synonyms

• predisposition
• sensitivity

More generic

• susceptibility
• susceptibleness

More specific

• diathesis
• habitus
• hypersensitivity
• sensitisation
• sensitization

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