sensitiveness

/'sensitivnis/

Thân thiện

A child shows great sensitiveness to the feelings of a friend who is upset.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The quality or state of being sensitive: This refers to the capacity to perceive, feel, or respond to stimuli, whether physical, emotional, or social.
   • Responsiveness to slight changes or influences: It denotes a high degree of reactivity or susceptibility to external factors, such as physical stimuli, emotional nuances, or interpersonal dynamics.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • Her sensitiveness to criticism made her reluctant to share her writing.
  • The sensitiveness of this scientific instrument allows it to detect minute changes in temperature.
  • He shows great sensitiveness to the needs of others.

Advanced Usage

• "Sensitiveness to light": A condition where the eyes react strongly or painfully to light.
  • After the surgery, he experienced increased sensitiveness to light.
• "Artistic sensitiveness": A refined or acute perception in artistic or aesthetic matters.
  • The poet's work is marked by a deep artistic sensitiveness to nature.

Variants and Related Words

• Sensitive (adj): Having or showing sensitiveness; easily affected or influenced.
  • She is very sensitive to noise.
• Sensitivity (n): Often used interchangeably with "sensitiveness," though it can more specifically denote a measurable degree of responsiveness.
  • The microphone's sensitivity is adjustable.

Synonyms

• Susceptibility: The state of being easily affected or influenced by something.
• Receptiveness: Willingness to consider or accept new suggestions and ideas.
• Responsiveness: The quality of reacting quickly and positively.

Related Phrases

• "Touch sensitiveness": Responsiveness to tactile stimuli.
  • The test measures the skin's touch sensitiveness.
• "Social sensitiveness": Awareness and consideration of social cues and others' feelings.
  • His lack of social sensitiveness sometimes leads to misunderstandings.

Related Idioms

• "To have a thin skin": To be overly sensitive to criticism or insults. (This idiom conveys a similar concept to emotional sensitiveness.)
  • In this business, you can't have a thin skin.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
2. the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences
   • a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity
   • the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth
3. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
   • sensitivity to pain
4. sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)

Từ đồng nghĩa

• sensitivity
• sensibility