Sensitiveness - Definition

n 1: sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
[syn: sensitivity, sensitiveness]
2: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty
of sensation; "sensitivity to pain" [syn: 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" [syn: sensitivity,
sensitiveness]
4: the ability to respond to affective changes in your
interpersonal environment [syn: sensitivity,
sensitiveness] [ant: insensitiveness, insensitivity]