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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sensitivity \Sen`si*tiv"i*ty\, n.
The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in
science and the arts; as the sensitivity of iodized silver.
Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the
scientific term for the capacity of feeling. --Hickok.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sensitivity
n 1: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli:
"sensitivity to pain" [syn: {sensitiveness}, {sensibility}]
2: the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register
small physical amounts or differences: "a galvanometer of
extreme sensitivity"
3: sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) [syn:
{sensitiveness}]
4: susceptibility to a pathogen [syn: {predisposition}]
5: the ability to respond to affective changes in your
interpersonal environment [syn: {sensitiveness}] [ant: {insensitivity},
{insensitivity}]
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