responsivity
noun
responsiveness; the extent to which something is responsive.
over-responsivity
-
a word derived from
responsivity.
Example Sentences
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Such approaches could potentially address specific autism symptoms, including sensory over-responsivity, which is common and often difficult to treat.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
Infants with greater connectivity with sensory regions showed great sensory over-responsivity at age one, an impairing condition that is common in autism whereby individuals show extreme responses to typical environmental sounds or sensations.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
A pair of studies published in 2017 and 2018 were the first to report that individuals with BFRBs have higher rates of sensory over-responsivity to external sensations than the general population.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2018
One of the studies found that people with trich were twice as likely to have severe to extreme sensory over-responsivity to touch and sound.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2018
Since then, sensory over-responsivity has been most frequently studied in association with autism, and more recently in OCD.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2018
