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n. - The ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment; responsiveness to external stimuli;

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Usage examples (37)
  • The sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth
  • "Yes; -- but the worst of it is, that when they suffer from this weakness, which you call sensitiveness, they think that they are made of finer material than other people.
  • ‘Yes; — but the worst of it is, that when they suffer from this weakness, which you call sensitiveness, they think that they are made of finer material than other people.
  • Their sensitiveness is a thing we have been trained, for self-defence, to repress.
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