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sensitiveness 音标拼音: [s'ɛnsətɪvnəs] n. 灵敏,灵敏度 灵敏,灵敏度 sensitiveness n 1: sensitivity to emotional feelings ( of self and others) [ synonym: { sensitivity}, { sensitiveness}] 2: ( physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; " sensitivity to pain" [ synonym: { sensitivity}, { sensitiveness}, { sensibility}] 3: 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" [ synonym: { sensitivity}, { sensitiveness}] 4: the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment [ synonym: { sensitivity}, { sensitiveness}] [ ant: { insensitiveness}, { insensitivity}] Sensitive \ Sen" si* tive\, a. [ F. sensitif. See { Sense}.] 1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected. [ 1913 Webster] She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( a) ( Mech.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales. ( b) ( Chem. & Photog.) Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Serving to affect the sense; sensible. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] A sensitive love of some sensitive objects. -- Hammond. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation. -- E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster] { Sensitive fern} ( Bot.), an American fern ({ Onoclea sensibilis}), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a slight tendency to fold together. { Sensitive flame} ( Physics), a gas flame so arranged that under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight sounds of the proper pitch. { Sensitive joint vetch} ( Bot.), an annual leguminous herb ({ Aeschynomene hispida}), with sensitive foliage. { Sensitive paper}, paper prepared for photographic purpose by being rendered sensitive to the effect of light. { Sensitive plant}. ( Bot.) ( a) A leguminous plant ({ Mimosa pudica}, or { Mimosa sensitiva}, and other allied species), the leaves of which close at the slightest touch. ( b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the sensitive brier ({ Schrankia}) of the Southern States, two common American species of { Cassia} ({ Cassia nictitans}, and { Cassia Chamaecrista}), a kind of sorrel ({ Oxalis sensitiva}), etc. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Sen" si* tive* ly}, adv. -- { Sen" si* tive* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster]
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