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pseudosensitive

pseudosensitive adjective: appealing to a superficial or exaggerated need for tact.

Adjective

pseudosensitive (comparative more pseudosensitive, superlative most pseudosensitive)

  1. appealing to a superficial or exaggerated need for tact
    • And yes and don't worry I'm aware of how all this sounds and can well imagine the judgments you're forming from the way I'm characterizing what drew me to her but if I'm really to explain this to you as requested then I have no choice but to be brutally candid rather than observing the...1999, David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 289

Forms of pseudosensitive

comparativemore pseudosensitive
superlativemost pseudosensitive

Origin of pseudosensitive

From pseudo- + sensitive.

Questions about pseudosensitive

What does pseudosensitive mean?
Pseudosensitive means appealing to a superficial or exaggerated need for tact.
What part of speech is pseudosensitive?
Pseudosensitive is an adjective.

Words near pseudosensitive in the dictionary

  1. pseudosegmented
  2. pseudoseizure
  3. pseudoseizures
  4. pseudoselector
  5. pseudoselectors
  6. pseudosensitive
  7. pseudosentence
  8. pseudosentences
  9. pseudosentience
  10. pseudosentient
  11. pseudosepta

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