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sensitivity

n.

Susceptibility
allergy, irritability, ticklishness; see irritation 1.
Emotional response or condition
delicacy, sensibility, sensitiveness, nervousness, acute awareness, consciousness, acuteness, subtlety, feeling, sympathetic response, responsiveness, sympathy, impressionability, affectability; see also sensation 1.

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Another word for sensitivity

noun

The capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus:
feeling, sensation, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sentiment. See awareness
The quality or condition of being emotionally and intuitively sensitive:
feeling, sensibility, sensitiveness. See awareness

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It is not a seared conscience that's lost all sensitivity.
In a food allergy or sensitivity, when the child eats a particular food, (such as eggs, for example) usually by the time the eggs reach the stomach or the intestines, the body reads the presence of eggs as an allergen (something harmful).
Many people who believe they experience a particular level of sensitivity or prior awareness of events yet to come often seek out psychic tests that can help them determine whether or not those percepions are extrasensory in nature.
A lot of us do not know what it is like to no be able to go out in the sun because of eye sensitivity, but our customers let us know how much our products have helped protect their eyes and let them enjoy normal outdoor activities.
Although children may lose their sensitivity to penicillin, if the reaction was urticarial or anaphylaxis, they are not re-challenged with the drug for safety reasons (i.e. it is not possible to predict who has lost sensitivity).

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