sensitivity

Definition

  • noun: the tendency to become upset about things that are done to you, are said about you, or relate to you
  • noun: the quality or state of being 'sensitive'
  • often + 'to'

Examples

  • the racial 'sensitivity' of this issue [=the tendency of people of certain races to become upset about this issue]

  • I was surprised by her extreme 'sensitivity' about even the smallest suggestions that we made.

  • skin 'sensitivity' [=the skin's tendency to react in a bad way to substances that touch it]

Movie quotes

  • (..) But I don't have the money to pay for extortion. Our child is going through adolescence. She is suffering. So you understand the sensitivity of her adolescence. If she was suffering she wouldn't have stayed. Why do you think she stayed? Did she choose you? To keep us from separating. (..)
    2011 A Separation