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absorbing, acute, affected, affected with, anxiolytic, ardent, attempered, boiling, boiling over, breathless, burning, captious, cast, caustic, characterized, clairsentient, conscious, cordial, cutting, deep, deep, deep, disposed, eager, earnest, eaten up with, ecstatic, electric, emotional, emotive, enraptured, enthusiastic, essentic, esthetic, exsensed, fanatical, feeling, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, flexanimous, formed, framed, glowing, gushing, having a bias, heart, hearty, home, imbued with, impassioned, impetuous, impressed with, impressive, in a quiver, inborn, inbred, incisive, inclined, indelible, ineffaceable, ingenuous, ingrained, inveterate, keen, keen as a razor, lively, molded, moved with, passionate, pathematic, pathoscopic, penetrated with, penetrating, perceptive, perfervid, pervading, piercing, piquant, poignant, profound, psychosensory, psychosexual, pungent, quick, rabid, racy, rapt, rapturous, raving, rectopathic, red, sensible, sensificatory, sensitive, sensorial, sensory, sensuous, sentient, sharp, sincere, smart, soul, strong, struck all of a heap, swelling, thin, touched with, trenchant, vivid, warm, warmhearted, wistful, with feeling, wrought up, zealous
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| Main Entry: | sensitiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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alive to, enthusiastic, excitable, expressive, fastidious, gushing, high, impressible, impressionable, lively, maudlin, mettlesome, mobile, oversensitive, romantic, sensible, sentimental, soft, soft, susceptible, susceptive, tender, tender as a chicken, tremblingly alive, vivacious, warm
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| Concept: | Sensibility. |
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-nouns
sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness; moral sensibility; impressibility, affectibility; suceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity; mobility; vivacity, vivaciousness; tenderness, softness; sentimental, sentimentality; sentimentalism., excitability; fastidousness; physical sensibility., sore point, sore place; where the shoe pinches.
-verbs
be sensible; have a tender heart, have a warm heart, have a sensitive heart., take to heart, treasure up in the heart; shrink., "die of a rose in aromatic pain" [Pope]; touch to the quick; touch on the raw.
-adjectives
sensible, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive, susceptible; alive to, impassionable, gushing; warmhearted, tender hearted, soft hearted; tender as a chicken; soft, sentimental, romantic; enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable; oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious.
-adverbs
sensibly; to the quick, to the inmost core.
-phrases
mens aeequa in arduis.
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| Antonyms: | insensibility |
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