supersensitive
adjective
extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive.
supersensitiveness
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a word derived from
supersensitive.
Example Sentences
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And realizing the extreme supersensitiveness of the German sailors, we are sending ahead by Parcel Post baskets for the cats and cages for the canaries.
From L.P.M. : the end of the Great War by J. Stewart (John Stewart) Barney
No weight is supported by the affected member and because of the pressure, occasioned by the swollen muscles confined within the non-yielding brachial fascia, there exists marked supersensitiveness of the affected parts.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Supersensitiveness to Pain.—Quite opposite to the foregoing instances are those cases in which such influences as expectation, naturally inherited nervousness, and genuine supersensitiveness make the slightest pain almost unendurable.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Fournier also mentions a French woman, an inhabitant of Naples, who had an extreme supersensitiveness of smell.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
She had never been on terms of intimacy with any of them during her stay there, hence their attitude troubled little after the first supersensitiveness wore off.
From North of Fifty-Three by Anton Otto Fischer
