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She was in a condition of moral hypersensitiveness, and everything hurt her: her conscience was raw.

From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Cannan, Gilbert

Besides this fear of cold, he was suffering from a hypersensitiveness of several other varieties.

From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.

A condition known as anaphylaxis or hypersensitiveness, which at present is being much studied, may sometimes occur in the human being.

From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)

I have studied the attitude of the younger women whom I have approached, purely impersonally and without the slightest hypersensitiveness.

From Nobody's Man by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

They are, above all, characterized by a marked hypersensitiveness and by a lack of harmonious relationship between the various psychic functions.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard