- sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; "sensitivity to pain"
--1 is a kind of sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
--1 has particulars:hypersensitivity; responsiveness, reactivity; exteroception; interoception; photosensitivity, radiosensitivity - sensitivity - the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity"
--2 is a kind of physical property
--2 has particulars: frequency response- sensitivity, sensitiveness - sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
--3 is a kind of feeling
--3 has particulars: oversensitiveness; sensibility; feelings- sensitivity, predisposition - susceptibility to a pathogen
--4 is a kind of susceptibility, susceptibleness
--4 has particulars:habitus; sensitization, sensitisation; hypersensitivity; diathesis - sensitivity, sensitiveness - the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
--5 is a kind of ability
Antonyms: insensitivity, insensitiveness
--5 has particulars: antenna, feeler; defensiveness; perceptiveness - sensitivity, sensitiveness - sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)