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Sensitive

adjective

1.

Responsive to physical stimuli. "A sensitive voltmeter" , "Sensitive skin" , "Sensitive to light" Antonym: insensitive.

2.

Being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others. Antonym: insensitive.

3.

Able to feel or perceive. Synonym: sensible. "The more sensible parts of the skin" Antonym: insensible.

4.

Hurting. Synonyms: raw, sore, tender.

5.

Of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security.

noun

1.

Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead. Synonyms: medium, spiritualist.

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"Sensitive" Quotes from Famous Books

... imagination is most delightful, but it is alleged that that of reason is more useful. Let us examine as the grounds of this distinction, what is here meant by utility. Pleasure or good, in a general sense, is that which the consciousness of a sensitive and intelligent being seeks, and in which, when found, it acquiesces. There are two kinds of pleasure, one durable, universal and permanent; the other transitory and particular. Utility may either express the means of producing the former or the latter. In the former sense, whatever strengthens ...

— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various

... at our meetinghouse. Decide the question as to what the churches here in the slaveholding States should require of any slaveowner desiring to come into the church. A very delicate matter to act upon in the present sensitive condition of public feeling on slavery. But it is the aim of the Brethren here not to offend popular feeling, so long as that feeling does not attempt any interference with what they regard and hold sacred as their line of Christian duty. Should such opposition arise, ...

— Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary - Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk • John Kline

... I was nearly going mad on account of it. It seems I had a sensitive soul without ever suspecting it. And now I am afraid of Paris, as believers are bound to be afraid of Hell. I have received a blow on the head—that is all—a blow resembling the fall of a tile when one is passing through the street. I am getting ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume IV (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant

... women, pimples are caused by indigestion or constipation. Unless the body throws off its waste material as it should, the poisonous matter will endeavor to find a way out through the pores of the skin. The face, being the most sensitive, is usually the first part of the body to be afflicted. The remedy for facial blemishes is found in exercise, baths and a careful diet. And that reminds me that I would like to remark right here that the combinations that girls and ...

— The Woman Beautiful - or, The Art of Beauty Culture • Helen Follett Stevans

... was not the place for any demonstration, but again from the gallery came a slight but distinct note of applause. As before, it instantly subsided as Philip looked up. For a moment every one held his breath and waited for the minister's action. Philip's face was pale and stern. What his sensitive nature suffered in that moment no one ever knew, not even his wife, who almost started from her seat, fearing that he was about to faint. For a moment there was a hesitation about Philip's manner so unusual with him that some thought he was going to leave the church. But ...

— The Crucifixion of Philip Strong • Charles M. Sheldon

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