hypersensitive
adjective
excessively sensitive.
hypersensitiveness
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a word derived from
hypersensitive.
Example Sentences
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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 E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
It can never be immodest to attend to the calls of Nature, and such hypersensitiveness is dangerous, for rupture, piles, fissure, prolapse, fistula, are often due to straining.
From Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Isaac George Briggs
In most other cases the impulses thus aroused have found their expression in a hypersensitiveness in regard to certain phases of personal conduct.
From Church Cooperation in Community Life by Paul L. (Paul Leroy) Vogt
She was imaginative, I knew, but never moody; common sense was strong in her, though she had her times of hypersensitiveness.
From The Damned by Algernon Blackwood
We perceive in you, Othomar, a certain tendency towards bourgeois hypersensitiveness, which we hope you will learn to master with all the strength you possess.
From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus
