The sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"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. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister] Reference
‘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. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister] Reference
Their sensitiveness is a thing we have been trained, for self-defence, to repress. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of the Soil] Reference
These persons are of a morbid sensitiveness, which is perpetually galled by collision with others. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
The French call sensitiveness to insignificant and worthless things, the German way of quarreling (faire querelle d'allemand). From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
It might be a mere fancy springing from a jealous sensitiveness, which is disappointed if it be not paid in the full measure of its own coin. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
The term “allergy” can be defined as the sensitiveness of body to a particular food, substance or odour which primarily does not affect other persons. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Remedies for Curing Allergies] Reference
He has a good deal of taste, and what you might call sensitiveness to externals. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Helmet, Volume II] Reference
I feel that my mind has been wrought into a state of sensitiveness which is excessive and morbid. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
Group-consciousness would cause the spreading and equalization of that spiritual sensitiveness which is, as a matter of fact, very unequally distributed amongst men. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day] Reference
"I've no patience with that kind of sensitiveness," replied Mrs. Lowe; "it's simply ridiculous; and not only ridiculous, but wrong. From Wordnik.com. [All's for the Best] Reference
His generosity and sensitiveness to human pain is like Yorick. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Nothing man will ever make can rival its sensitiveness and capacity. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Tenderness possesses a sensitiveness of sympathy to an extreme degree. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
Lord by the range of our sensitiveness to the world's sorrow and pain. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Does the sensitiveness of plants ever amount to sensibility or feeling?. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Justin's career had not been of a sort to cultivate undue sensitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
The magnetic sensitiveness of the spirit to thought currents is astounding. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
This story emphasizes the intense sensitiveness of the author about his work. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
The sensitiveness of the skin varies at different places from the tongue downwards. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
The beginning of a story is then for me in more than usual sensitiveness to emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
"You must have thought me a great brute," said Wyvis, with some sensitiveness in his tone. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Only native modesty could explain the absence of the usual author pride and sensitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis] Reference
Envy comes with it, and jealousy, and a morbid sensitiveness which readily leaps into strife. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The nervous system is well developed as shown by the extreme sensitiveness of insects to touch. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference
It has a sensitiveness of feeling towards questions of right and wrong, and of truth and error. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
And the habit of sleeplessness developed and with it a painfully abnormal sensitiveness to noises. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
And if you can succeed in breaking his pride, and destroying this sensitiveness, then he is a lost being. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
The kitten, with the singular sensitiveness that seems to affect it at every kind of excitement, was now on her back. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
A boy who grows up in an atmosphere of openly accepted corruption will inevitably lack sensitiveness of moral perception. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
Women: Jackie would have immediately recognized sensitiveness of situation requires either/or and most certainly not both. From Wordnik.com. [But Would Jackie Wear It?] Reference
Nan's sensitiveness to a rude quarrel did not impress the man; but her sensitiveness to the weather shocked him immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
Sober as he was and knew he would ever be, it seemed that a keen sensitiveness came with it, and a feeling of impending calamity. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
But neither of those writers possessed Loti's delicate sensitiveness to exotic nature as it is reflected in the foreign mind and heart. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He was some years older than that, but the extreme sensitiveness of his character and ill health gave unusual delicacy to his appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
She had already shown herself to be a painful mixture of sensitiveness and carelessness of criticism that made Ruth Fielding, at least, wonder greatly. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
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