sensitiveness

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Parts II and III contain specific suggestions for rearing individualistic children possessed of the four qualities set forth as desirable in Part I�Vitality, Courage, Sensitiveness and Intelligence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sensitiveness is manifested by movement or change of form in response to an external impression.

From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa

Sensitiveness does not pay; loving consideration of others brings no real reward; men do not get what they give.

From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Sensitiveness denotes an especial delicacy of sensibility, ready to be excited by the slightest cause, as displayed, for instance, in the "sensitive-plant."

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

Sensitiveness is nothing more or less than a refined form of selfishness, while lack of self-control is merely the combined end-product of heredity and childhood spoiling.

From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.