supersensitive
adjective
extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive.
supersensitiveness
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a word derived from
supersensitive.
Example Sentences
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Symptomatology.—Evident symptoms of inflammation in carpitis are always present—hyperthermia, supersensitiveness and swelling.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Attempts to recognize supersensitiveness or inflammation by means of passive movement of the shoulder or hip, whether gently or forcefully, is not productive of good, in any case, in large animals.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Yet, in spite of his own supersensitiveness, Richmond was a peacemaker.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Eva Scott
We each have our own emotional microscope, and the strength of its lens increases in proportion to the supersensitiveness of our nervous system.
From Power Through Repose by Annie Payson Call
In his supersensitiveness he was obsessed with an entirely unfounded impression that he was losing prestige among his men because of the unavoidable delay.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
