Sensitivity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the


           scientific term for the capacity of feeling. --Hickok.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  120 Moby Thesaurus words for "sensitivity":
     acuteness, affectivity, agitability, allergy, anaphylaxis,
     appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciativeness,
     artistic judgment, awareness, censoriousness, choosiness,
     combustibility, compassion, concern, connoisseurship,
     conscientiousness, consciousness, considerateness,
     critical niceness, criticalness, delicacy, discriminating taste,
     discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, edginess,
     emotional instability, emotionalism, empathy, eruptiveness,
     excitability, excitableness, explosiveness, exquisiteness,
     fastidiousness, feel, feeling, fine palate, fineness, finesse,
     hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitiveness, hypersensitivity,
     identification, impressionability, inflammability, intuition,
     irascibility, irritability, judiciousness, kindliness,
     latent violence, making distinctions, meticulousness, nervousness,
     niceness of distinction, nicety, oversensibility,
     oversensitiveness, oversensitivity, overtenderness, palate,
     particularity, particularness, passibility, perception,
     perceptiveness, perceptivity, perfectionism, perturbability,
     photophobia, preciseness, precisianism, precision, prickliness,
     priggishness, prudishness, punctilio, punctiliousness, purism,
     puritanism, receptiveness, receptivity, refined discrimination,
     refined palate, refinement, responsiveness, scrupulosity,
     scrupulousness, selectiveness, selectivity, sense, sensibility,
     sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, skittishness, soreness,
     startlishness, strictness, subtlety, supersensitivity,
     susceptibility, susceptivity, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, taste,
     temperamentalness, tempestuousness, tenderness, tetchiness,
     thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness, understanding, violence,
     warmth