Synonyms for sensitivity
ˌsɛn sɪˈtɪv ɪ tisen·si·tiv·i·ty

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1. sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibilitynoun

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

   "sensitivity to pain"

   Synonyms:
   sensibility, sensitiveness, aesthesia, esthesia, predisposition

   Antonyms:
   insensitiveness, insensitivity

2. 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"

   Synonyms:
   sensibility, sensitiveness, predisposition

   Antonyms:
   insensitiveness, insensitivity

3. sensitivity, sensitivenessnoun

   sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)

   Synonyms:
   sensibility, sensitiveness, predisposition

   Antonyms:
   insensitiveness, insensitivity

4. sensitivity, predispositionnoun

   susceptibility to a pathogen

   Synonyms:
   sensibility, sensitiveness, predisposition

   Antonyms:
   insensitiveness, insensitivity

5. sensitivity, sensitivenessnoun

   the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

   Synonyms:
   sensibility, sensitiveness, predisposition

   Antonyms:
   insensitivity, insensitiveness

Matched Categories

1. • Ability
   • Feeling
   • Physical Property
   • Physiology
   • Sense
   • Susceptibility

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1. List of paraphrases for "sensitivity":

   susceptibility, tenderness, sensibility, sensitivities, sensitiveness, responsiveness, sensitive, delicacy, awareness, receptiveness, vulnerability, tact, sensation, psychosocial

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1. Unifor President Jerry Dias:

   I understand the government's sensitivity. And I understand clearly that the optics for our government look terrible, but I also understand also that this is a company that needs help ... I have to look at the bigger picture.

2. Gabriel Vecchi:

   This study shows very nicely that the impact of aerosols is not isolated to the Atlantic, but involves a global shift in the distribution of tropical cyclones, aerosols are among the most uncertain elements of the climate system, so I think that there should — and I predict there will — be follow-on studies that explore the sensitivity of the results to a range of aerosol-related uncertainties.

3. Mohammed Afkhami:

   When you turn on the news, it's like, from Syria to Iraq to Libya, those places are all in turmoil, so that's what people think of the whole region ... When people say, 'Oh, Iranians make art?' it means (Iranians are) compassionate people; they're people who have sensitivity, feelings, a sense of perspective. That's something that you don't see that much because, unfortunately, the media does not show that positive narrative.

4. Francis Collins:

   If you're in a circumstance where you really, really don't want to miss a diagnosis of somebody who's already carrying the virus, you'd like to have something that has a higher sensitivity than that.

5. Jonah Hill:

   In America at that time in the 90s, traditional masculinity was not to show emotion, not to show sensitivity, not to show vulnerability because it's feminine or, God forbid, gay to do so, we're kind of not saying what we mean and we're not actually expressing what's happening here ... I just wanted to show that that's problematic.