oversensitiveness
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It has been found that gastric indigestion produces oversensitiveness, fretfulness, and irritability, while chronic constipation results in erratic conduct, stupidity, languor, headache, and moodiness.
From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various
Her mockery, her impatience, her picturesque asperity were a kind of game which she played with herself, to disguise, sometimes even from herself, the greatness and the oversensitiveness of her heart.
From International Short Stories American by Various
There may also be oversensitiveness to pain and of the skin.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
And yet, after she had learned to make allowances for the oversensitiveness, Bea found Lila more lovable and winning week by week.
From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Julia Augusta Schwartz
The oversensitiveness to pain persists for months, and is a constant temptation.
From Doctor and Patient by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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