hypersensitise
hypersensitise is the alternative form of hypersensitize.
Meaning of hypersensitize
Verb
hypersensitize (third-person singular simple present hypersensitizes, present participle hypersensitizing, simple past and past participle hypersensitized)
- To become excessively sensitized.
- The pragmatic journalist’s daughter would, and did, explain these “memories” as the work of an imagination hypersensitized by her father’s recent death, but a detail in one letter will not be dismissed. Robert Frobisher mentions a comet-shaped birthmark between his shoulder blade and collarbone.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 120
Forms of hypersensitise
| third-person singular present | hypersensitises |
|---|---|
| present participle | hypersensitising |
| past participle | hypersensitised |
| past | hypersensitised |
Origin of hypersensitise
From hyper- + sensitise.
Questions about hypersensitise
- What is hypersensitise the alternative form of?
- Hypersensitise is the alternative form of hypersensitize.
Words near hypersensitise in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hypersensitise (page history and authors); hypersensitize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “hypersensitise.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hypersensitise. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.