sensibility
noun
capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
hypersensibility
-
a word derived from
sensibility.
Example Sentences
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Whatever the motives and whatever the determining causes, hypersensibility is in any case a feeling of feelings which is not warranted by the present situation.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. Jackson
This scheme is based on hypersensibility created by repetition of same dose in tuberculous subjects.
From Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium by Various
And he saw now that the years of his independent poverty had done much towards the development of common-sense, and the extinction of that hypersensibility which had so marred his otherwise fine nature.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
