hypersensitiveness
- a word derived from hypersensitive.
Example Sentences
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Besides in a neurosis there always seems to be a hypersensitiveness of the nerves involved that may simulate the tenderness of neuritis.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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 Couperus, Louis
But he had held out, and evidently developed into a good salesman, being bold and of imperturbable good spirits and temper, and not troubled by hypersensitiveness.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Sometimes, as we have seen, the form which a hypersensitiveness assumes is not determined by any physical sensation, either past or symbolism which acts out in the body the drama of the soul.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.
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)
