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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsiveness to stimuli |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, affectibility, awareness, consciousness, delicacy, feeling, impressionability, nervousness, reactiveness, reactivity, receptiveness, sensation, sense, sensitiveness, subtlety, susceptibility, sympathy |
| Antonyms: | apathy, impassivity, insensitivity, numbness |
| Main Entry: | allergy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reaction to certain food, material, etc. |
| Synonyms: | allergic reaction, aversion, hay fever, hypersensitivity, sensitivity, susceptibility, vulnerability |
| Main Entry: | appreciation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recognition of worth |
| Synonyms: | admiration, aesthetic sense, affection, appraisal, assessment, attraction, awareness, cognizance, commendation, comprehension, enjoyment, esteem, estimation, grasp, high regard, knowledge, liking, love, perception, realization, recognition, regard, relish, respect, responsivenesss, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sympathy, understanding, valuation |
| Main Entry: | distinction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | differentiation; feature |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, alterity, analysis, characteristic, clearness, contrast, diagnosis, difference, differential, discernment, discrepancy, discreteness, discretion, discrimination, dissemblance, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, divergence, divergency, division, earmark, estimation, individuality, judgment, mark, marking, nicety, otherness, particularity, peculiarity, penetration, perception, qualification, quality, refinement, sensitivity, separation, sharpness, tact, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | ear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attention |
| Synonyms: | appreciation, consideration, discrimination, hearing, heed, mark, mind, note, notice, observance, observation, perception, regard, remark, sensitivity, taste |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensation, especially of touch |
| Synonyms: | activity, awareness, consciousness, enjoyment, excitability, excitation, excitement, feel, innervation, motility, motor response, pain, perceiving, perception, pleasure, reaction, receptivity, reflex, responsiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, tactility, tangibility, titillation |
| Antonyms: | insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a state of mind, often strong |
| Synonyms: | action, affection, appreciation, ardor, behavior, capacity, compassion, concern, cultivation, culture, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, emotion, empathy, faculty, fervor, fondness, heat, imagination, impression, intelligence, intensity, intuition, judgment, keenness, palpability, passion, pathos, pity, reaction, refinement, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, sentimentality, sharpness, spirit, sympathy, tangibility, taste, tenderness, understanding, warmth |
| Main Entry: | heart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's emotions |
| Synonyms: | affection, benevolence, character, compassion, concern, disposition, feeling, gusto, humanity, inclination, love, nature, palate, pity, relish, response, sensitivity, sentiment, soul, sympathy, temperament, tenderness, understanding, zest |
| Antonyms: | head |
| Main Entry: | nervousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxious state |
| Synonyms: | agitation, all-overs, anger, animation, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, delirium, discomfiture, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, excitability, feverishness, fidgets, flap, fluster*, fuss*, impatience, jitters, jumps, moodiness, neurasthenia, neuroticism, perturbation, quivers, sensitivity, shakes, stage fright, stimulation, stress, tension, timidity, tizzy, to-do, touchiness, trembles, tremulousness, turbulence, uneasiness, willies, worry |
| Antonyms: | calm, calmness, collectedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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