Definitions For Sensitivity

noun

  • The ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
  • The ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences
  • (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
  • Sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
  • Susceptibility to a pathogen
  • The tendency to become upset about things that are done to you, are said about you, or relate to you
  • The tendency to cause people to be upset
  • An awareness and understanding of the feelings of other people

Is Sensitivities a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
16
Words with Friends
18

The word Sensitivity is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Sensitivity in a Sentence

  • I was surprised by her extreme sensitivity about even the smallest suggestions that we made.
  • This is a matter of great political sensitivity.
  • He handled the situation with great sensitivity.

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