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sensitivity
Found in thesaurus: sense, sentiency, sensory faculty, sensation, sentience, physical property, feeling, susceptibility, susceptibleness, ability
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sensitivity
n.
ability to perceive sensation; responsiveness; delicateness, state of requiring special treatment or care; susceptibility to outside influences; quality of being temperamental
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Sensitivity
Sensitivity may refer to:
- Allergic sensitivity, the strength of a reaction to an allergy
- Film speed, photographic film's sensitivity to light
- Information sensitivity
- Sensitivity, the ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli
- Sensitivity analysis
- Sensitivity and specificity, statistical measures of the performance of binary classification tests
- Sensitivity (control systems), variations in process dynamics and control systems
- Sensitivity (electronics)
- Sensitivity (explosives), the degree to which an explosive can be initiated by impact, heat or friction
- Sensitivity (human), the strength of physical or emotional reaction in humans
- Sensitivity (instrument), the smallest signal that a certain instrument can measure.
- "Sensitivity" (Shapeshifters song), the fourth single from music group Shapeshifters
- "Sensitivity" (song), a song by rhythm and blues singer Ralph Tresvant
- "Sensitized", a song by Kylie Minogue from X
- Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), high measured values of which are the defining trait of highly sensitive persons
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sensitivity
Noun
1. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; "sensitivity to pain"
(synonym) sensitiveness, sensibility
(hypernym) sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
(hyponym) hypersensitivity
(classification) physiology
2. the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"
(hypernym) physical property
(hyponym) frequency response
(attribute) sensitive
3. sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
(synonym) sensitiveness
(hypernym) feeling
(hyponym) oversensitiveness
(attribute) sensitive
4. susceptibility to a pathogen
(synonym) predisposition
(hypernym) susceptibility, susceptibleness
(hyponym) habitus
(attribute) sensitizing, sensitising
5. the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
(synonym) sensitiveness
(antonym) insensitivity, insensitiveness
(hypernym) ability
(hyponym) antenna, feeler
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sensitivity
n.
citlivost
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sensitivity
Rzecz.
wrażliwość; wyczucie
