Antonyms for sensitivenesssen·si·tive·ness

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1. sensitivenessnoun

   Synonyms:
   sensitivity

2. sensitivenessnoun

   The ability to perceive sensation.

   Synonyms:
   sensitivity

3. sensitivenessnoun

   The ability to be aware of (and, usually, react with regard to) the feelings of others.

   Synonyms:
   sensitivity

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1. sensitiveness

   Sensibility in the philosophical sense, denotes the capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will. (Compare synonyms for SENSATION.) In popular use sensibility denotes sometimes capacity of feeling of any kind; as, sensibility to heat or cold; sometimes, a peculiar readiness to be the subject of feeling, especially of the higher feelings; as, the sensibility of the artist or the poet; a person of great or fine sensibility. Sensitiveness denotes an especial delicacy of sensibility, ready to be excited by the slightest cause, as displayed, for instance, in the "sensitive-plant." Susceptibility is rather a capacity to take up, receive, and, as it were, to contain feeling, so that a person of great susceptibility is capable of being not only readily but deeply moved; sensitiveness is more superficial, susceptibility more pervading. Thus, in physics, the sensitiveness of a magnetic needle is the ease with which it may be deflected, as by another magnet; its susceptibility is the degree to which it can be magnetized by a given magnetic force or the amount of magnetism it will hold. So a person of great sensitiveness is quickly and keenly affected by any external influence, as by music, pathos, or ridicule, while a person of great susceptibility is not only touched, but moved to his inmost soul.

   Antonyms:
   coldness, deadness, hardness, insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness

   Synonyms:
   feeling, impressibility, sensibility, susceptibility

   Preposition:
   The sensibility of the organism to atmospheric changes.

Matched Categories

1. • Ability
   • Feeling
   • Physiology
   • Sense

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1. sensitivity, sensitivenessnoun

   sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)

   Antonyms:
   insensitivity, insensitiveness

   Synonyms:
   sensitivity, sensibility, predisposition

2. sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibilitynoun

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

   "sensitivity to pain"

   Antonyms:
   insensitivity, insensitiveness

   Synonyms:
   sensitivity, sensibility, aesthesia, esthesia, predisposition

3. sensitivity, sensitivenessnoun

   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"

   Antonyms:
   insensitivity, insensitiveness

   Synonyms:
   sensitivity, sensibility, predisposition

4. sensitivity, sensitivenessnoun

   the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

   Antonyms:
   insensitivity, insensitiveness

   Synonyms:
   sensitivity, sensibility, predisposition

How to use sensitiveness in a sentence?

1. Von Humboldt:

   It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armour-proof against painful emotions; nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

2. Alfred Adler:

   Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

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