sensitivity

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Caffeine and you: You have a certain sensitivity to this drug.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sensitivity gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

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"

noun

sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sensitivity.

noun

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

noun

sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)

noun

susceptibility to a pathogen

noun

the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

Example sentences

Caffeine and you: You have a certain sensitivity to this drug.

Bravo!Not that this applies to you, but at what age do people learn empathy and sensitivity?

In those cases, you can have a 40 character password with all the case sensitivity you like and it won't matter at all.

Am I the only one with scope sensitivity, or are people valuing natural water at +∞, or what?

So who is really the expert here?The world needs more sensitivity Paul, not the cancer of your nasty hatey hate speech.

Can I phrase the same objection in a more HN-y manner?SSH terminals are high-sensitivity software.

This email didn't need to win any awards it just needed to have some minimum level of sensitivity.

Until then I intend every day to live fully, with great sensitivity, and to remember that each day I live is one my sister did not have.

The invisible hand can't keep this in checkit cannot discipline the seller with lost saleswhen so many buyers do not act with actual price sensitivity.

Leveraging the political sensitivity of this important issue to attack an opponent is pretty low.

By adjusting the magnitude of the alpha parameter to the dirichlet prior, you adjust your sensitivity to small numbers of observations.

The latter response demonstrates emotional sensitivity towards the other person in the conversation.

Research from Google / Amazon / Microsoft / etc has found that page load speed has the following quantifiable impacts and that the sensitivity is on the order of 100 ms, or roughly one fiftieth of the improvement I delivered.

With respect to Adria's past and her sensitivity to the triggers she refers to, a comment like this is not demeaning to women and her reaction has nothing to do with supporting the future of this industry and the women who partake in it.

* Bureaucracies and procurement policies that run the gamut: administrators, local government, state government, federal government, parents, the school board, the PTA, the teachers union, etc.* Extreme price sensitivity.

The little things only sense motion, and when I asked the lady said they had no plans to add any other types of sensitivity - temperature, moisture, light, current, etc. Compared with the other 'internet of things' kits out there battling for visibility, this one doesn't seem original or more useful, only visually striking.