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sensitive where I got the injection. 2 touchy, susceptible,
susceptive, reactive, responsive, attuned, impressionable,
emotional, thin-skinned, vulnerable, supersensitive,
hypersensitive, testy, irascible, quarrelsome, irritable,
volatile, excitable, temperamental, petulant, hot-tempered,
quick-tempered: Liz is very sensitive on the subject of being
unmarried, and I shouldn't bring it up. 3 finely tuned,
delicate, responsive, subtle, acute, reactive, receptive: We
need a more sensitive test to detect neutrinos. This radio is
not sensitive enough to receive distant stations.
sensitivity
n. 1 sensitiveness, delicacy, touchiness, over-sensitivity,
hypersensitivity, supersensitivity; soreness, irritability: The
sensitivity of teenagers to criticism is well known to teachers
and parents. She complained of sensitivity and pain in the
pelvic region. 2 compassion, concern, sympathy, tenderness,
tender-heartedness, kind-heartedness, kindliness, warmth,
feeling: The nurses exhibit a genuine sensitivity for the
problems of the handicapped. 3 awareness, consciousness,
acuteness, perception, understanding, intuition, feeling, sense,
sensitivity, sensitiveness, receptivity or receptiveness,
receptibility, appreciation, appreciativeness, susceptibility,
susceptivity or susceptiveness: Harvey has a keen sensitivity
for the feelings of others. Sometimes I think the duke lacks the
sensitivity needed to sympathize with the needy.
sensual adj. physical, appetitive, voluptuous, carnal, bodily, fleshly,
erotic, sexual, lustful, unchaste, abandoned, dissolute,
profligate, dissipated, licentious, lewd, lascivious, lubricious
or lubricous, goatish, hircine, lecherous, libidinous,
salacious, prurient, rakish, wanton, debauched, Cyprian, loose,
dirty, Slang randy: Cranston pursued his sensual pleasures with
no regard for morality.
sensualist
n. lecher, profligate, wanton, debauchee, rou‚, rake, Romeo,
Don Juan, Casanova, Lothario, libertine; voluptuary, hedonist,
sybarite, bon viveur, bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, gourmet,
gourmand, gastronome, pleasure-seeker: The main character in
the film is a self-seeking sensualist who betrays every woman in
his life.