Adjective : to be hypersensitive to criticism. From Dictionary.com.
Many an extra franc and taler and lira did this hypersensitiveness cost him. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
The patient may have extreme pain in the region of the head, ovaries, spine; in some parts of the skin there is extreme hypersensitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
Nevertheless, this important discovery does not explain all the facts, e.g. the hypersensitiveness to insulin of hypophysectomized animals. From Wordnik.com. [Bernardo Houssay - Nobel Lecture] Reference
They are, above all, characterized by a marked hypersensitiveness and by a lack of harmonious relationship between the various psychic functions. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
Reciprocally in hypophysectomized animals there is hypersensitiveness to insulin, and in fasting, their blood sugar and glycogen falls more rapidly and markedly than in normal animals. From Wordnik.com. [Bernardo Houssay - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The diagnostician should take note of local manifestations of hypersensitiveness, or heat if such exist, and, in addition, other conditions must be excluded before definite conclusions are possible. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
The hypersensitiveness of Sophia Blashkov, during the months before his birth, reproduced itself, with startling similarity, in the youth whose sensibilities had been so sharpened by long pampering in the hot-house atmosphere of luxurious idleness; and an attitude of constant flattery and suavity from the men and women in whose eyes he was always haloed by. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
His ridiculous hypersensitiveness made her heart ache. From Wordnik.com. [Sons and Lovers] Reference
But if you are not careful, that very hypersensitiveness will lead you to your destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Kevin Stilley Dot Com] Reference
A condition known as anaphylaxis or hypersensitiveness, which at present is being much studied, may sometimes occur in the human being. From Wordnik.com. [Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene] Reference
He is not a little mystified when he encounters in her periodically recurring phases of hypersensitiveness, unreasonableness, and loss of the sense of proportion. From Wordnik.com. [The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage] Reference
But he had held out, and evidently developed into a good salesman, being bold and of imperturbable good spirits and temper, and not troubled by hypersensitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
She remained quiet, for she had learned the hypersensitiveness induced by drink and was fastidiously careful not to hurt him even with the knowledge that she had lain awake for him. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 13] Reference
Bilphistic mother, or some inherited hypersensitiveness, made her susceptible to any suggestion of the psychic, and, far from gullible about the motives of people, she was inclined to credit any extraordinary happening attributed to the whimsical perambulations of the buried. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
In most cases their conduct is the outcome of hypersensitiveness or sentimentalism; they cannot endure the sufferings of others, not so much because they experience a genuine pity for the sufferers, but because the sight of pain arouses pain in themselves and shocks their aesthetic sense. From Wordnik.com. [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference
There is no reason to doubt that this hypersensitiveness is much less marked in man than in the lower animals, and there can be no question that it much less commonly develops, but notwithstanding this it would be the part of prudence to avoid a second administration of the drug after the interval referred to in all instances where this seems possible. From Wordnik.com. [Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene] Reference
As it is true that this hypersensitiveness once established in animals may continue throughout life, it becomes a question as to whether or not it is quite safe to administer antitoxin to an individual who has had the drug given him at some prior time, and we are not as yet in a position to definitely determine the risks that are involved in such a procedure. From Wordnik.com. [Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene] Reference
Rietti); and in 1929, assisted by Miss Potick I saw that the administration of pars distalis prevented or corrected hypersensitiveness to insulin in hypophysectomized toads. From Wordnik.com. [Bernardo Houssay - Nobel Lecture] Reference
My pictures are likely to remain as private as the utmost hypersensitiveness could desire. ". From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
Retinal arterial occlusive of hypersensitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
James, Henry, his hypersensitiveness, 255, 256. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
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