sensitiveness
-sensitive
suffix
uk / -sen.sɪ.tɪv/ us / -sen.sə.t̬ɪv/
reacting to the presence of a particular substance or physical effect: 敏感的
They have heat-sensitive infrared cameras.他们有热敏感红外摄像头。
We use a pH-sensitive dye.我们使用ph敏感染料。
easily influenced, changed, or damaged by a particular thing: 对…...敏感
After the exam, the patient's eyes are light-sensitive for two to four hours, which can cause blurred vision. 检查后，病人的眼睛在两到四小时内对光敏感，有可能会导致视力模糊。
Some types of debt are particularly risk-sensitive.有些债务风险敏感度尤其高。
Anti-fraud features include heat-sensitive inks that are revealed if the prescription is photocopied.
The light-sensitive lenses of his sunglasses are turning black.
These findings suggest BPRP may be a glucose-sensitive protein.
We measured responses to dehydration in both desiccation-tolerant and dessication-sensitive material.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Reacting and responding
acknowledge
act on something
adverse reaction
Babinski reflex
backlash
bat
bat something back
hypersensitive
hypersensitize
non-response
non-responsive
on your toesidiom
reception
sensitiveness
sensitivity
step
step up to the plateidiom
strike while the iron is hotidiom
supersensitivity
toe

sensitive | American Dictionary

sensitive
adjective
us/ˈsen·sə·t̬ɪv/

sensitiveadjective (UNDERSTANDING)

having or showing awareness and understanding, esp. of other people’s feelings and needs:
My experience made me very sensitive to the suffering of others.

sensitiveadjective (UPSET)

(of a person) easily upset:
Tom is extremely sensitive about his hair.
She’s very sensitive to criticism.

sensitiveadjective (REACTING EASILY)

easily influenced, changed, or damaged, esp. by a physical activity or effect:
an environmentally sensitive river
Their products include cleansers and moisturizers for sensitive skin.

sensitiveadjective (NEEDING CAREFUL TREATMENT)

needing to be treated with care or secrecy:
Raising fuel prices can be a sensitive issue.

sensitive | Business English

sensitive
adjective
uk /ˈsensɪtɪv/us
easily influenced or affected by something:
This sector is more likely to be more price sensitive than the domestic sector.
economically sensitive
sensitive to sthInvestors were increasingly sensitive to interest rates.
used to describe a subject, situation, etc. that needs to be dealt with carefully or kept secret:
The secret service has acknowledged that there's classified and sensitive information that they are not able to tell the public.
sensitive documents
sensitive email
understanding what other people need, and being helpful to them:
sensitive to sthA local board could be more sensitive to the education needs of students.

Examples of sensitive

sensitive
The trappings of style and design tend to evaporate - at least to some degree - replaced by sensitive renderings of a city experienced.
The spatial receptive-field structure of these selection units suggests that they may be sensitive to disparity contrast.
Symbolic appeals, like the applications of rules, ought to be sensitive to special circumstances.
The authors discuss the conditions that can make for successful peer work, including preparation of the students and a sensitive approach by the teacher.
Thus, it is vital to remain sensitive to the danger inherent in their use.
Sensitivity analysis showed that the value of prevalence was sensitive mainly to variations in vaccination and screening costs.
This observation means that smaller farms are more sensitive to changes in water prices, in that their relative change of surplus is larger.
It seems therefore that the epidemiology of rubella is more sensitive to differences in mixing patterns than mumps and measles.
Similarly, little work has been directed toward efforts to understand and apply culturally sensitive modes of intervention.
Another difference was that the context sensitive vowels and consonant items differed with respect to the constraining context.
However, our results show that serology, using a carefully defined cut-off, can be a highly sensitive technique for most of the course of infection.
There is, in fact, research evidence that error detection, developmental sequences, and negotiation of meaning may all be sensitive to social context.
Finally, the relatively impersonal nature of the interview process may discourage some older people from disclosing information about sensitive traumatic events.
This will allow, in turn, examination of the issue of whether the size results obtained are sensitive to spectral shape adopted under the null hypothesis.
In the developing countries infant mortality still remains a sensitive indicator of socioeconomic standards.
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