touchiness

For starters, she would like us to get over the kind of hair-trigger touchiness about language that leads to social media pile-ons, and focus on genuine threats.

But in the official plan released this month, the sequence was renamed “Black women’s voices in society and leadership,” and the lesson became “Overlapping Dimensions of Black Life” — a clear sign, very late in the process, of the touchiness of publishing any variant of the word “intersection.”

In preadolescent children, Fortuna says, depression may reveal itself as touchiness and irritability rather than sadness.

The Chinese authorities’ touchiness means global outcries have a mixed record of securing better treatment of repressed groups.

In any case it could be very useful if you were quite happy, thank you, with social distancing when it comes to hugs and touchiness.